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

[Chris Green <cl isbd net>]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 03:27:26PM +0100, Paolo Bacchilega wrote:
> Il 24/12/2011 12:06, Chris Green ha scritto:
> > 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.
Aha, excellent, thank you.

I don't like spurious empty directories so I had set all of the entries
in $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs to $HOME, this prevents the system
creating various default directories that I don't want.

Since gthumb uses this to find where my pictures are all I needed to to
was edit the PICTURES entry in $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs back to what
I want and now I'm happy!

Thanks for the help.

-- 
Chris Green