2008/7/12 Filippo Giunchedi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 09:36:45PM +0200, Marius Mikucionis wrote:
There's a revealing discussion here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.devel/15680
and here:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/bluez-devel/msg00180.html
a simple workaround is to install xdg-user-dirs package and run
xdg-user-dirs-update as a user.
the proposed patch has been applied to bluez-gnome 0.27 which I'm about to
upload.
I have not seen the patch, but I hope that it is more explicit about
what files and directories are involved.
IMHO, the best solution would be to give a warning popup window (i.e.
not all users are aware of command line and I don't think they have
to).
I've added a README.Debian in the form of:
bluez-gnome for Debian
==
In case bluetooth-applet fails to receive files try starting bluetooth-applet
from the command line, it should output
G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD is not set
or
G_USER_DIRECTORY_PUBLIC_SHARE is not set
in this case check if ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs contains the correct
directories, if that file doesn't exist installing the xdg-user-dirs package
and running /usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-update will create it.
would be that ok?
Well, it's a bit cryptic but it is fair enough for this README. I am
not quite sure if a common
user will go for README file after experiencing that bluetooth does
not quite work.
In other words, I am myself quite happy now that I've found the roots
of the problem, fixed it, and it does not bother me any more,
but one should think about usability issues in general and make sure
that errors like that don't go *unannounced*, leaving the user
*uninformed*.
Maybe gnome is already aiming at it and will nail such problems
automagically in a longer run, but this is just beyond my knowledge,
thus you will have to decide it yourself if that fix is OK.
Thanks for your effort.
Marius
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