Re: [gthumb-list] Can I 'root' gthumb away from my home directory?

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Il 24/12/2011 12:06, Chris Green ha scritto:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 04:40:45PM -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> > On 12/23/2011 04:31 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> > > I have just started using gthumb (because it's the default on xubuntu
> > > 11.10) and I'm quite taken with it.
> > >
> > > I have a question/need though, is there any way I can tell it to 'start'
> > > as it were at a directory that's not my home directory?  I simply want
> > > it to view the tree from $HOME/pictures downwards and not be distracted
> > > by the rest of what's in my home directory.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > Edit>  Preferences>  General>  On Startup
> Not *quite* what I wanted.  Setting "On Startup" to $HOME/pictures
> doesn't hide anything else.  What I want is to see *only* what's under
> $HOME/pictures.
>
> It appears that gthumb uses the same list of top level directories that
> the default file manager uses (thunar in my case).  As I very rarely use
> the GUI file manager it may be that I can change thunar's defaults and,
> as a result, change gthumb as well.
>
> No, on checking, gthumb *doesn't* show the same set of 'root'
> directories that thunar shows.  Thunar just shows 'chris' (which is
> $HOME) and Desktop and File Syste.  Gthumb on the other hand shows
> 'chris', 'Home Folder' (which doesn't work), 'File System', 'CD/DVD
> Drive ...' and 'Catalogues'.
>
> What I'd like is either to hide all of those directories and just show
> the pictures directory or (second best but acceptable) have pictures as
> one of the top level diretories.
>
> What is 'Home Folder' supposed to show?  On my system at the moment when
> I try and open it all I get is 'Loading...' and nothing more happens.
> If I could change it so that it was the pictures folder I'd have just
> about what I want.

gThumb already has this feature.  It's likely that on your system the 
XDG special directories are not set correctly, to do this you have to 
execute the xdg-user-dirs-update utility from the command line.

- Paolo