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Re: Free Desktop Directores in $HOME
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Smith)
Tue Mar 18 18:30:06 2008
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:29:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Quentin Smith <quentin@MIT.EDU>
To: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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I went and dug around in the code and documentation. I want to point out
that these defaults are only written into ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs when
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs does not exist, and are not updated after that
first creation. Therefore, this will only affect people who have never
logged into Debathena (probably a reasonable solution)
--Quentin
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Timothy G Abbott wrote:
> Anders and I discussed this for a while, and concluded that a better solution
> is probably to change /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults.
>
> The current draft solution (debathena-desktop-config in the Debathena locker)
> instead "replaces" that file for users AFS home directories (by checking
> DEBATHENA_HOME_TYPE in a script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/).
>
> We set the following defaults:
>
> DESKTOP=Desktop
> DOWNLOAD=Desktop
> TEMPLATES=
> PUBLICSHARE=Public
> DOCUMENTS=
> MUSIC=
> PICTURES=
> VIDEOS=
>
> ($HOME is prepended to each of these before being copied into a file in
> ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs).
>
> -Tim Abbott
>
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Timothy G Abbott wrote:
>
>> People were complaining in the office today about their Athena home
>> directories being spammed with directories with names:
>>
>> * Documents
>> * Music
>> * Pictures
>> * Templates
>> * Videos
>>
>> created whenever they login to zsr (or any other Debathena Gutsy machine).
>>
>> This behavior can be disabled by doing
>>
>> sed -i 's/^enabled=True$/enabled=False/' /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf
>>
>> Is this something that we want to configure for debathena-workstation? I
>> suspect that our users would appreciate not having these directories
>> created automatically in their home directory every time they login (it's
>> pretty obnoxious behavior; though it may be user-configurable by editing
>> ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs).
>>
>> -Tim Abbott
>>
>
