QStandardPaths does not have Videos

JoeCFD

On Linux QStandardPaths::MoviesLocation gives dir Movies instead of Video. Why?

Pradeep P N

Can you please tell me on which platform did you try it ?

The path on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS which i tried with Qt 5.13 is as below

"/home/pradeep/Videos"

Just one line code to print i tried.

    qDebug() << QStandardPaths::writableLocation(QStandardPaths::MoviesLocation) << endl;

All the best,.

Bonnie

QStandardPaths primarily reads user dirs from xdg-user-dirs

JoeCFD

Thank you for your reply. On the same platform, but Qt 5.9.5 is used.

Pradeep P N

The path dose not change with Qt Version.
In case if u still have issue, can you run the sample code which i have posted and provide the output ?

All the best.

JonB

@JoeCFD
As per @Bonnie's response, from a terminal in your desktop environment type:

xdg-user-dir VIDEOS

Mine gives me /home/jon/Videos.

JoeCFD

Could be the problem of 5.9.5.

JoeCFD

Ok. you call the different function. Just noticed it. Yours works. Thanks.