1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/browser.c b/browser.c
index 36876c4..307690e 100644
--- a/browser.c
+++ b/browser.c
@@ -681,7 +681,21 @@ grab_environment_configuration(void)
     if (e != NULL)
         accepted_language[0] = g_strdup(e);
 
+    /*
+     * Accept XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR as a valid download directory if
+     * LARIZA_DOWNLOAD_DIR is not specifically set. Since the XDG user directory
+     * specification is extremely stupid, and depends on a certain xdg-user-dir
+     * binary, we do two runs for acquiring the XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR. We look at the
+     * environment variables (which what this specification should have been),
+     * and use g_get_user_special_dir() if that fails.
+     */
     e = g_getenv(__NAME_UPPERCASE__"_DOWNLOAD_DIR");
+    if (e == NULL)
+        e = g_getenv("XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR");
+    if (e == NULL)
+        e = g_get_user_special_dir(G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD);
+    if (e == NULL)
+        e = g_build_filename(g_get_home_dir(), "Downloads", NULL);
     if (e != NULL)
         download_dir = g_strdup(e);