Bug#531691: /usr/bin/epiphany: Tries to download files to /; which obviously fails

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 2.26.1-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/epiphany

Menu Edit / Preferences / General.

I have "Automatically download and open files" set. The download folder is set
to "File System", which seems to be a weird unusual name for the root folder.

1) That's a very bad default, for the obvious reason that most users don't have
   write permissions there. I'd suggest $HOME, $HOME/Desktop, $HOME/downloads
   or something like that.

2) It cannot be changed. If I select another folder there and click "Close",
   when I go back to that dialog, it is back to "File System"

End result is that I get files named e.g. "OLLFR9Gk.part" in /tmp/ and I have
to fish the downloaded file from there.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_LU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_LU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  epiphany-gecko                2.26.1-1   Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck

epiphany-browser recommends no packages.

epiphany-browser suggests no packages.

Versions of packages epiphany-gecko depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                    1.2.12-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  epiphany-browser-data       2.26.1-1     Data files for the GNOME web brows
ii  gnome-icon-theme            2.24.0-4     GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  iso-codes                   3.9-1        ISO language, territory, currency,
ii  libavahi-client3            0.6.25-1     Avahi client library
ii  libavahi-common3            0.6.25-1     Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-gobject0           0.6.25-1     Avahi GObject library
ii  libc6                       2.9-12       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcanberra-gtk0            0.11-1       Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii  libcanberra0                0.11-1       a simple abstract interface for pl
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.12-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.80-4       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libenchant1c2a              1.4.2-3.3    a wrapper library for various spel
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.4.0-5    GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.26.0-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.6.4-1    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.20.1-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.26.0-1     The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.24.1-1     The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.16.1-2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2 0.4.5-1      sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libnspr4-0d                 4.7.4-3      NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.24.0-3+b1  Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstdc++6                  4.4.0-5      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.2.1-1    X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                     2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1                  1.1.24-2     XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  python2.5                   2.5.4-1      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  xulrunner-1.9               1.9.0.7-1    XUL + XPCOM application runner
ii  xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support 1.9.0.7-1    Support for GNOME in xulrunner app

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