In previous versions of Fedora, the Cups-PDF package has saved the PDFs on the Desktop. Now that Gnome Shell defaults to not showing icons for files in the Desktop folder, do we need to point Cups-PDF at another folder? I personally find it confusing to have Cups-PDF saving files to the Desktop folder, but not having those items displayed on the desktop.
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Jared K. Smith jsmith@fedoraproject.org wrote:
In previous versions of Fedora, the Cups-PDF package has saved the PDFs on the Desktop. Now that Gnome Shell defaults to not showing icons for files in the Desktop folder, do we need to point Cups-PDF at another folder? I personally find it confusing to have Cups-PDF saving files to the Desktop folder, but not having those items displayed on the desktop.
I'd recommend ~/Documents, but ultimately it's up to the application. Firefox seems to default to ~ for "print to file".
On 3/22/11 8:27 AM, Jared K. Smith wrote:
In previous versions of Fedora, the Cups-PDF package has saved the PDFs on the Desktop. Now that Gnome Shell defaults to not showing icons for files in the Desktop folder, do we need to point Cups-PDF at another folder? I personally find it confusing to have Cups-PDF saving files to the Desktop folder, but not having those items displayed on the desktop.
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader
Isn't there some sort of xdg magic you can do to figure out where the "Documents" type folder is and default to that? One of my biggest pet peeves is apps that save document type files and default to something other than my Documents folder.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 09:36:55AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
On 3/22/11 8:27 AM, Jared K. Smith wrote:
In previous versions of Fedora, the Cups-PDF package has saved the PDFs on the Desktop. Now that Gnome Shell defaults to not showing icons for files in the Desktop folder, do we need to point Cups-PDF at another folder? I personally find it confusing to have Cups-PDF saving files to the Desktop folder, but not having those items displayed on the desktop.
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader
Isn't there some sort of xdg magic you can do to figure out where the "Documents" type folder is and default to that? One of my biggest pet peeves is apps that save document type files and default to something other than my Documents folder.
+1, and I believe the answer to your question is "yes": http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 17:50 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 09:36:55AM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
On 3/22/11 8:27 AM, Jared K. Smith wrote:
In previous versions of Fedora, the Cups-PDF package has saved the PDFs on the Desktop. Now that Gnome Shell defaults to not showing icons for files in the Desktop folder, do we need to point Cups-PDF at another folder? I personally find it confusing to have Cups-PDF saving files to the Desktop folder, but not having those items displayed on the desktop.
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader
Isn't there some sort of xdg magic you can do to figure out where the "Documents" type folder is and default to that? One of my biggest pet peeves is apps that save document type files and default to something other than my Documents folder.
+1, and I believe the answer to your question is "yes": http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs
If you are using glib, then
g_get_user_special_dir (G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOCUMENTS)
will give you the xdg documents directory.
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