Bug#968890: gnome-boxes: different file transfer prompts for Windows guests

[Roman Riabenko]

Package: gnome-boxes
Version: 3.36.5-1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

When I copy a file from the host Debian machine to a guest machine by dragging
and dropping the file from GNOME files (Nautilus) to the VM screen in Boxes,
I get a reassuring prompt that it will be possible to find the file in "Downloads"
("Завантаження" in Ukrainian interface) folder. It is followed by a progress bar
saying 'Copying "X" to "Downloads"', where X is the filename, when I release
the file into the VM screen. The prompts are correct if the guest OS is another
Debian. But if the guest OS is Windows 10, the file is stored to the Desktop,
not Downloads. I find it appropriate that the file is stored to the Desktop on
Windows. This is what a Windows user would typically do with a new file introduced
from an external source, unless it is downloaded from the Internet, or what the
system administrator would do with a file pushed to a user. It would be great to
have different prompts for Windows. It is easy to get accustomed to the wrong
prompts, but they were rather confusing when I was starting to use Boxes.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=uk_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-boxes depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.36.0-1
ii  genisoimage                                  9:1.1.11-3.1
ii  libarchive13                                 3.4.3-2
ii  libc6                                        2.31-3
ii  libcairo2                                    1.16.0-4
ii  libfreerdp2-2                                2.1.2+dfsg1-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.40.0+dfsg-5
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.64.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.24.22-1
ii  libgtk-vnc-2.0-0                             1.0.0-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               233-1
ii  libosinfo-1.0-0                              1.7.1-1
ii  libosinfo-bin                                1.7.1-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.46.0-2
ii  libsecret-1-0                                0.20.3-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                                 2.70.0-1
ii  libspice-client-glib-2.0-8                   0.38-2
ii  libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5                    0.38-2
ii  libtracker-sparql-2.0-0                      2.3.4-1+b1
ii  libusb-1.0-0                                 2:1.0.23-2
ii  libvirt-daemon                               6.5.0-1
ii  libvirt-glib-1.0-0                           3.0.0-1
ii  libvte-2.91-0                                0.60.3-1
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37                         2.28.4-1
ii  libwinpr2-2                                  2.1.2+dfsg1-2
ii  libxml2                                      2.9.10+dfsg-5+b1
ii  tracker                                      2.3.4-1+b1

Versions of packages gnome-boxes recommends:
ii  qemu-system-x86  1:5.1+dfsg-3

gnome-boxes suggests no packages.

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