[Gambas-user] IDE Error

[Bruce Steers]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 13:50, Denis Crowther <denisc at exemail.com.au> wrote:

> On 3/8/23 00:26, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> > On 3/7/23 06:09, Bruce Steers wrote:
> >> The error occurs on this line...
> >> $cDesktopDirCache[Desktop.GetDirectory("PUBLICSHARE")] = "folder-share"
> >>
> >> Check your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file has something like this line
> >> in it.,..
> >> XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
> >>
> >> $ cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
> >>
> >>
> >> Mine does and i get no errors.
> >>
> >> BruceS
> >
> > I wonder if it is distro-specific.
> >
> > No problem on openSUSE; the line was already there:
> > user at linux-desktop:~> grep -i "publicshare" ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
> > XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
> >
> >
>
> BruceS said and I used "$HOME/Public" not "$HOME/", typo?.
>
> Also I compiled from source, not a distro.
>
> --
> Regards
> Denis
>

I think he means the XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR setting not being there is distro
specific.

and the location is just where you choose the root of your public area.
(it's up to you)

I'm sure you can choose to not have a public dir
 i wonder if that makes the line missing from the config?

BruceS
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