gnome screenshot breaks if I don't have ~/Pictures directory

Colin, it's debated in bug 927952

Hi Sam, thanks,

however, I'm still flagging up the main issue which is:

"If I take a screen shot using Print Screen and I don't have a /home/$USER/Pictures directory I get a crash pop-up saying "Sorry, Screenshot closed unexpectedly"."

I'm pretty sure checking if a directory exists is better than getting a crash error message.

Agree, though I think when 927952 solves the root cause which introduced exactly the deliberate move to pictures directory, then there won't be a reason to crash. The issue currently is that user has no interactive mode to select from a dialog where to save the image. When there is a dialog the app talks to the user instead of doing what it wants by itself or worse as just crashing.

On 17/02/12 22:32, Sam_ wrote:
> Agree, though I think when 927952 solves the root cause which introduced
> exactly the deliberate move to pictures directory, then there won't be a
> reason to crash. The issue currently is that user has no interactive
> mode to select from a dialog where to save the image. When there is a
> dialog the app talks to the user instead of doing what it wants by
> itself or worse as just crashing.
>
Cool. Thanks!

Colin, latest update of gnome-screenshot reverts the automatically drop to pictures directory - but only for unity.
The path for auto-save-directory can also be changed via dconf-editor:
org.gnome.gnome-screenshot

Since this mechanism has been reverted back to the old style of dialogue box, this is no longer an issue. Marking as invalid.