Where should Cups-PDF save its files now that we have no desktop icons?
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
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