On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 at 16:50:28 +0100, Eric Veiras Galisson wrote: > if you take photos or videos with [cheese], you don't > know where they are stored and can't find these information. > > With a bit of research, I found that these files are stored in > ~/.gnome2/cheese/media which is not a user-friendly place.
I came across this while experimenting with a minimal subset of GNOME 3.6. If you have xdg-user-dirs installed (you may need to log out and back in after installing it for it to take effect), Cheese will use a Webcam subdirectory of the XDG Pictures and Videos directories; if not, it will use the location you describe (which was its old default before it got XDG support). > Gnome Cheese FAQ [1] says that cheese will use XDG-directories to > store photos and videos, but are these XDG-directories specified > in Debian? This particular set of XDG directories is the "user directories", managed by the xdg-user-dirs package, and analogous to folders like "My Pictures" in Windows. Install xdg-user-dirs, log out, log back in, and look in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs. The defaults in an English installation are XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures" and XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos", but they can be influenced by /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults and by your locale. You can edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs to change the locations used for these "special directories". Perhaps cheese should have Recommends: xdg-user-dirs? (gnome, xfdesktop4 and sucrose already do, but that doesn't help users of LXDE, KDE or no particular desktop environment.) S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org