Ubuntu Tweak

Changing .recently-used.xbel into a folder breaks VMware Player 3.1.0

Bug #585268 reported by David Clayton
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Tweak
Fix Released
Low
Ding Zhou
Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.5

Bug Description

I believe ubuntu-tweak changes .recently-used.xbel into a folder to disable Recent files, this breaks the Library (list of VMs) in VMware Player 3.1.0 as it uses this file.

I lost the list of VMs and after lots of VMware reinstalls etc to find the problem I finally launched vmplayer in a terminal seeing the error message related to the .recently-used.xbel file. Once I deleted the folder, the file was created again and all my problems went away.

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Ding Zhou (tualatrix) wrote :

Yes, to disable the Recent files, Ubuntu Tweak will changes the file to folder.

This is a feature, not a bug.

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David Clayton (dcstar) wrote :

Any "Feature" that impacts on the operation of things that it is not intended to needs to have a big caveat made known to anyone who is about to use it:

"Warning - using this may well break other software such as VMware Player"

Failing to warn people about consequences such as this will only get the tool a reputation as dangerous.

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Ding Zhou (tualatrix) wrote :

OK. You're right. I should add the warning information before user enable this feature. Thanks.

Changed in ubuntu-tweak:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → TualatriX (tualatrix)
milestone: none → 0.5.5
Ding Zhou (tualatrix)
Changed in ubuntu-tweak:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Ding Zhou (tualatrix)
Changed in ubuntu-tweak:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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