Huge security issue also. See former messages in the archive from me
related to this, ahem, feature.
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Dazed_75 <
lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
> What genius decided that the users home directory should also BE the
> [gnome] Desktop? Doing so means that every file and directory in a users
> home directory appears on the Desktop. One does not notice it on finishing
> the install because there are no visible files there. Makes me wonder how
> many people we did installs for at the installfest are now being bothered by
> this weird setup.
>
> I do not know how widespread this is but I found a number of discussions
> about it on the web. A scratch install of ubuntu 9.04 seems to do this
> though an upgrade does not. I THINK the change is related to the new
> install having a ~/.config/ that looks like:
>
> # This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
>> # If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
>> # interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
>> # Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
>> # homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
>> # absolute path. No other format is supported.
>> #
>> XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/"
>> XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/"
>
> instead of
>
>> ---<snip>---
>> #
>> XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
>> XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
>> XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
>> XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
>> XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
>> XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
>> XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
>> XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
>
>
> I don't know how or why that happened, but I also noted the absence of
> .bashrc and .profile which I thought were supposed to be made (copied from
> /etc) by default for every user? This almost makes me wonder if the change
> was intentional or possibly poorly vetted.
>
> Anyone have any inside info about this?
> --
> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
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