Bug#510319: gnome-screensaver: Even with xdg-user-dirs it's not finding images

[Manuel Bilderbeek]

Package: gnome-screensaver
Version: 2.26.1-2
Severity: normal

I tried your suggestion.

It's a bit odd, but apparently xdg-user-dirs isn't installed by default.
So, by default, this extra config is not done at all.

Anyway, according to the config file, my images dir is ~/Pictures. That
directory existed. So, in there I added a symlink to my ~/photos
directory, where I store my personal photos.

A day later (after a reboot), the photos were still not shown in the
slideshow screensaver, only the place-holder images were.

So, it's not working by default and if you try to let it work with
xdg-user-dirs, it's still not working?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                        2.26.2-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.26.0-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-session                 2.26.2-1   The GNOME Session Manager
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                     1.8.8-2    The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.82-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.26.2-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      7.5.1-1    A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglade2-0                   1:2.6.4-1  library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.20.5-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11         2.26.1-1   Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2                2.26.1-2   an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnomekbd3                  2.26.0-1   GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.16.6-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.4.5-1    sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpam0g                      1.0.1-10   Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.24.5-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.2-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      2:1.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxklavier12                 3.9-1      X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxxf86misc1                 1:1.0.1-3  X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii  libxxf86vm1                   1:1.0.2-1  X11 XFree86 video mode extension l

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager           2.24.4-3   power management tool for the GNOM
pn  libpam-gnome-keyring          <none>     (no description available)
ii  rss-glx                       0.9.0-2    Really Slick Screensavers GLX Port

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver suggests:
ii  xscreensaver-data            5.05-3+nmu1 data files to be shared among scre

-- no debconf information