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FS#35005 - [vlc] "My Computer/My Music/etc." shortcuts don't work without ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs present

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Evan Buswell (ebuswell) - Sunday, 28 April 2013, 06:30 GMT
Last edited by Giovanni Scafora (giovanni) - Monday, 27 May 2013, 19:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

vlc's "My Computer/My Music/etc." shortcuts don't work without ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs present, instead giving you a view of your home directory. .config/user-dirs.dirs is created and maintained by xdg-user-dir, yet this is not listed as an optional dependency for vlc.

It wouldn't be a horrible idea for vlc to have intelligent defaults here, seeing as 90% of distributions have the same default values for these directories, but I suppose that's up to the upstream maintainer.

Suggested fix for now is to add somthing like this to the optional dependencies of vlc:

xdg-user-dir: to create or edit vlc's "My Music/Videos/Pictures" shortcuts

Additional info:

version 2.0.6-1

Steps to reproduce:

delete ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, run vlc, and click on the links under "My Computer".
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Closed by  Giovanni Scafora (giovanni)
Monday, 27 May 2013, 19:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug

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