Bug#575605: cheese: Stores files in an unexpected directory, without possibility to change it
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 at 16:50:28 +0100, Eric Veiras Galisson wrote: if you take photos or videos with [cheese], you don't know where they are stored and can't find these information. With a bit of research, I found that these files are stored in ~/.gnome2/cheese/media which is not a user-friendly place. I came across this while experimenting with a minimal subset of GNOME 3.6. If you have xdg-user-dirs installed (you may need to log out and back in after installing it for it to take effect), Cheese will use a Webcam subdirectory of the XDG Pictures and Videos directories; if not, it will use the location you describe (which was its old default before it got XDG support). Gnome Cheese FAQ [1] says that cheese will use XDG-directories to store photos and videos, but are these XDG-directories specified in Debian? This particular set of XDG directories is the user directories, managed by the xdg-user-dirs package, and analogous to folders like My Pictures in Windows. Install xdg-user-dirs, log out, log back in, and look in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs. The defaults in an English installation are XDG_PICTURES_DIR=$HOME/Pictures and XDG_VIDEOS_DIR=$HOME/Videos, but they can be influenced by /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults and by your locale. You can edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs to change the locations used for these special directories. Perhaps cheese should have Recommends: xdg-user-dirs? (gnome, xfdesktop4 and sucrose already do, but that doesn't help users of LXDE, KDE or no particular desktop environment.) S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#575605: cheese: Stores files in an unexpected directory, without possibility to change it
severity 575605 wishlist thanks Hi, This bug is outdated and should be closed (see also #556735). Cheese stores now recording in directories managed through XDG. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#575605: cheese: Stores files in an unexpected directory, without possibility to change it
Package: cheese Version: 2.28.1-1 Severity: important The current version of cheese in squeeze faces a problem which renders it nearly unusable: if you take photos or videos with it, you don't know where they are stored and can't find these information. With a bit of research, I found that these files are stored in ~/.gnome2/cheese/media which is not a user-friendly place. Gnome Cheese FAQ [1] says that cheese will use XDG-directories to store photos and videos, but are these XDG-directories specified in Debian? And how can a user change them? [1] http://live.gnome.org/Cheese/FAQ#Where_does_cheese_store_my_photos.3F ps: bug #556735 tells the opposite with cheese creating a ~/Webcam directory to store photos+videos, I don't know why we have different program behaviours -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cheese depends on: ii gconf22.28.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-base0.10.28-1 GStreamer plugins from the base ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-good0.10.21-1 GStreamer plugins from the good ii gstreamer0.10-x 0.10.28-1 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.84-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libebook1.2-9 2.28.2-1 Client library for evolution addre ii libgconf2-4 2.28.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-desktop-2-11 2.28.2-1 Utility library for loading .deskt ii libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10 0.10.28-1 GStreamer libraries from the base ii libgstreamer0.10-00.10.28-1 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libhal1 0.5.14-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libpango1.0-0 1.26.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii librsvg2-22.26.0-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG Versions of packages cheese recommends: ii gvfs 1.4.3-2userspace virtual filesystem - ser cheese suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
