[Mono-list] Environment.GetFolderPath() on fedora core 8

Chris Howie cdhowie at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 10:58:29 EST 2008


On Jan 7, 2008 10:49 AM, Travis Staloch <twostepted at yahoo.com> wrote:

> In light of the MSDN recommendation below, Environment.GetFolderPath(
> Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop) should return a good value since the
> Desktop folder does exist on my fc8 box.
> > The path to the specified system special folder, if that folder
> physically exists on your computer; otherwise, the empty string ("").
>
> So this is a bug.  Can anyone recommend a next step to get this fixed?
> Shall I file a bug report?
>

You could file a bug and see what happens.  (Note that the $HOME/Desktop
directory is *not* required to exist at all, and that may be why the corlib
developers decided not to have it return that path.)

-- 
Chris Howie
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