[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#489932: Bug#489932: /usr/bin/bluetooth-applet: bluetooth-applet does not accept files

[Filippo Giunchedi]

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 propose to include xdg-user-dirs-update as dependency for bluez-gnome,
> or at least as a recomendation, because it cannot work without the config 
> file created by xdg-user-dirs-update.

I'm reluctant to do this, see below.

> 
> It might be the case that the bug does not appear if gnome is 
> installed "fresh", however I installed whole Debian fresh, and moved my
> home directory from an old system and thus this still came out 
> as a problem.

This is right, nowadays gnome tracks movements of user dirs and updates xdg user
dirs accordingly.

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?

filippo
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