From c039a3ddda97ee0aff8563f9dc61f9814f95b9dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Florian=20M=C3=BCllner?= <fmuellner@gnome.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:22:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] recorder: Fall back to ~ if XDG_VIDEOS_DIR doesn't exist

Unlike screenshots, recordings fail when the default directory doesn't
exist. Fall back to home instead.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765015
---
 src/shell-recorder.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/shell-recorder.c b/src/shell-recorder.c
index 62ef0c4cc..84d68f56b 100644
--- a/src/shell-recorder.c
+++ b/src/shell-recorder.c
@@ -944,6 +944,9 @@ get_absolute_path (char *maybe_relative)
   else
     {
       const char *video_dir = g_get_user_special_dir (G_USER_DIRECTORY_VIDEOS);
+      if (!g_file_test (video_dir, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS))
+          video_dir = g_get_home_dir ();
+
       path = g_build_filename (video_dir, maybe_relative, NULL);
     }