Hi,
Is there a way to prevent Dolphin to create default Downloads directory after I delete it?
The exact scenario I’m having is that I created the “downloads” directory because I want the first character to be lowercase and I deleted the Downloads dir because I dont need it and yet Dolphin creates on every boot it seems.
# 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="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
This did not work. Tried first just editing the config file and then tried with the command , and then both.
The file gets recreated in either case with the XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads" line added every time.
It seems this is my only option for now. But i really want to work it my way without renaming it but deleting it from config.
Sorry - that are probably not going to happen - you will have to disable the xdg app which runs a login because the xdg app/service is the one responsible for creating the folder structure.
I don’t know much of KDE - so I am not able to deduct where it is a service or an autostarted app - running once at login.
You are totally correct. I feel ashamed now and I come off as a spoiled brat.
I was mislead by being unable to customize the config file however I wanted right on the spot which was unreasonable thing to ask for in the first place, but it is more than enough to rename the automatically created directory or being able to just delete the program or fork it.
I’ll give it a go. Immediate thing I noticed without rebooting is that the user-dirs.dirs file got re-created but now not containing the comment section for example. This could be it. I will report back. (cant believe didnt find this GUI setting in Settings)