Re: GEmblemedIcons help

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Nicolò Chieffo <84yelo3 gmail com> wrote:
>> I'm not quite sure that patch is a good idea as is.
>> g_get_user_special_dir() can't handle the special directories changing
>> during the runtime of the app, something which nautilus does (it tracks
>> renames of directories, sees if these are "special" dirs and then
>> changes the special dir. But with this patch nautilus would still show
>> the special icon on the old directory.
>>
>> However, its kind of lame that we can't automatically get the right
>> icons for apps other than nautilus though, so we should try to do
>> something... Not quite sure what the best approach is though.
>
> Since GLIB does not want to track xdg dir changes at runtime (I think
> they did a wrong design, but they cannot break the behaviour now),
> this patch is coherent with glib and there is no problem (also because
> gio is part of glib, and has nothing to do with nautilus, it's
> nautilus that depends on gio).
>
> Then we can patch nautilus to show icons also when the xdg dirs change.
>
> Anyway the fact that nautilus can change special dirs is somehow
> tricky for other applications which depends on special dirs (which
> will use glib and will see the old special dir), so maybe nautilus
> should simply warn the user that he needs to restart the session,
> whenever it detects a special dir change.

xdg-user-dirs are not meant to be frequently changing. It would be
wrong to put a lot of effort in making runtime-changes of them work
everywhere.