pidgin uses wrong desktop path

Bug #189074 reported by Tomas Gustavsson
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pidgin (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: pidgin

When I try to save one avatar picture that one of my MSN contacts has it first try to save it into the folder "Desktop". That would be very true and good if "Desktop" was my desktop, but it isn't. As I have selected Swedish as my language and the name of the "Desktop folder" is not "Desktop" but "Skrivbord".

I know this isn't a major issue but still it's a little annoying. Such a small thing shouldn't be too hard to fix.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Feb 4 22:03:23 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pidgin
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pidgin 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: pidgin
ProcCwd: /home/tomas
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pidgin
Uname: Linux dercomputer 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:02:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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The same bug occurs when using Firefox. I try to save files from my email to my desktop, aka "skrivbord", but they end up in my user folder, i.e. the files end up in /home/user when they should go into /home/user/skrivbord.

I am also running Ubuntu 7.10

Tags: apport-bug
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Tomas Gustavsson (tomplast) wrote :
josani (jnisell)
description: updated
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Marlon Cisternas Milla (mcisternas-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in pidgin:
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in pidgin:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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AcesBR (alessandroborges) wrote :

Hi,

I'd like to report same problem.
I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 with Brazilian Portuguese settings.
It has a Desktop folder and also "Área de Trabalho" folder (Desktop in Brazilian Portuguese).
This last one is the effective used Desktop, but some applications wrongly put shortcuts and icons in the canonical /home/userName/Desktop folder.

 How can avoid it ??

Thanks
Alessandro

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