Re: bluez-gnome and OBEX DBus names

Bastien Nocera <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bluez.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 14:50 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
<snip>
> > how is the average user (yes, there are such things now ;-) expected to
> > know how to set these *!$%& directories? I needed 20 minutes of glib
> > source diving to find the relevant code - why doesn't Gnome, e.g., set
> > this automatically?
> 
> Actually GNOME should do this. However if you kept upgrading GNOME over
> time from an old installation, it might have missed it. Don't ask me
> details, but for a clean installation it is set.

Not GNOME actually, but xdg-user-dirs[1]. A decent installation should
have this running in the user's session, and Nautilus allows you to
rename/move the directories and keep the configuration up-to-date as
expected.

[1]: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs


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