Bug#575605: cheese: Stores files in an unexpected directory, without possibility to change it

[Eric Veiras Galisson]

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  gconf2                        2.28.0-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base    0.10.28-1  GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good    0.10.21-1  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                     1.8.8-2    The 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  libgstreamer0.10-0            0.10.28-1  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  librsvg2-2                    2.26.0-1   SAX-based renderer library for SVG

Versions of packages cheese recommends:
ii  gvfs                          1.4.3-2    userspace virtual filesystem - ser

cheese suggests no packages.

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