511271 - Opening "Attachments" pane in preferences creates ~/Desktop directory

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 434327

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Pouya K]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090810 Gentoo Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090818 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b3

Opening "Attachments" pane in preferences creates ~/Desktop directory. This occurs even if the default of ~/Desktop has been changed. This corresponds to bug #434327 in Firefox. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open preferences
2. Switch to "Attachments" pane

Actual Results:  
No creation of ~/Desktop

Expected Results:  
Creation of ~/Desktop

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Confirming.

Comment 2

[Ken Bloom]

This doesn't actually require #434327 (in Firefox) to be fixed first, does it? They're similar but independent bugs, right?

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Depends on what the bug turns out to be. Added dependency for easy tracking.

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

Bug 434327 comment 11 I found a system setting that stops this. Create ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and place XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="/home/linux_user/" in it where linux_user is you user name. More details in the other bug.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Walt, Richard, do you experience this and bug 434327 ?

Comment 6

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

I don't know if it creates a Desktop directory since one exists by default when installing a Linux or Windows operating system.

Options/Preferences > General > Attachments does have Desktop selected as the default "Save files to" directory in Thunderbird. It can be changed

Options/Preferences > General > Files & Applications in my Firefox has Downloads as the default. It can be changed.

Comment 7

[Richard Leger]

Hi Wayne,

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #5)

Walt, Richard, do you experience this and bug 434327 ?

Was I really destined to this request?

On Windows 10 Desktop folder in the user profile already exists so now sure how to answer you.
In Options > General > Attachments I have "Always ask me where to save file" option selected.
The alternative option above (not selected) seems to show Dekstop as default destination.

No sure that really answer your question though...

Comment 8

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I expect the fix in bug 434327 also fixed this?

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #8)

I expect the fix in bug 434327 also fixed this?

I would hope so.