1082717 - Desktop folder re-created on startup when XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME"

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect, P5)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 20140924084714

Steps to reproduce:

If I set my desktop folder to my home by writing XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME" in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, a "Desktop" folder is re-created each time I start Firefox. However, if I write XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="/home/user" in the same file, the "Desktop" folder is not created anymore.



Actual results:

The Desktop folder is created.


Expected results:

It shouldn't be :)

Comment 1

[Loic]

Does it work for you?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/985990
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37922/how-to-prevent-the-auto-creation-of-the-desktop-folder

Comment 2

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(In reply to Loic from comment #1)
> Does it work for you?
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/985990
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37922/how-to-prevent-the-auto-
> creation-of-the-desktop-folder

No, it doesn't quite work: if I write XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME" (as per the XDG spec), it keeps re-creating the desktop folder. However, If I write XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="/home/myuser", it works. So, the solution only works partially and doesn't quite respect the XDG spec.

Comment 3

[David Regev]

Adding a slash afterwards solves the problem (XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/").

It seems Firefox’s support for the standard is simply incomplete, as it expects this unnecessary slash. This also means it should be relatively easy to fix.

Comment 4

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Firefox will fallback to $HOME/Desktop if the desktop folder is unavailable from XDG user directory, for compatibility with older versions that did not support XDG. But the fallback would do more harm than good nowadays.