Shotwell should display xdg-user-dirs (Downloads, Pictures, Videos...) in the left panel
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Shotwell version 0.30.17 both debian package and flathub flatpak
Note that I've changed some default paths to xdg-user-dirs. At present time my ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs shows :
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="/mnt/data/Téléchargements"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Modèles"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="/mnt/data/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="/mnt/data/Musique"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="/mnt/data/Images"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="/mnt/data/Vidéos"
The expected behaviour
Left panel should display xdg-user-dirs (Downloads, Pictures, Videos...) no matter the user configuration
What was actually happening
Left panel only display /mnt/data/Images in my configuration (see above)