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Bug 975

Summary:	Apps do not honor/use the Documents location set in user-dirs.dirs
Product:	TDE	Reporter:	Darrell <darrella>
Component:	tdebase	Assignee:	Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	critical	CC:	bugwatch, darrella
Priority:	P1
Version:	R14.0.0 [Trinity]
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Compiler Version:		TDE Version String:
Application Version:		Application Name:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	989

Description Darrell 2012-04-22 14:35:10 CDT

Use the File/Open option in an app such as Kate/KWrite/Kedit. The resulting kdialog does not open to the preferred "documents" location set in KControl:System Administration:Paths.

The pattern seems to be this:

* The contents of user-dirs.dirs is ignored in kdialog.

* If $HOME/Documents exists, then always use $HOME/Documents as the "documents" path in kdialog, regardless of the Path setting.

* If $HOME/Documents does not exist, then use $HOME as the "documents" path in kdialog, regardless of the Path setting.

Most users probably never see this bug because they use a location of $HOME or $HOME/Documents, which this behavior pattern observes. People in a multi-user environment who prefer or need a default "documents" location outside of $HOME are affected by this bug.

KControl does seem to update and read user-dirs.dirs. I write "seems" because I have seen instances when that did not happen, but I can't replicate the behavior.

Comment 1 Darrell 2013-04-18 23:07:27 CDT

I just ran a quick test. The problem seems fully related to the [$e] quirk discovered in bug report 976. (I haven't yet finished recompiling and testing for bug report 976.) Without the [$e] the dialogs seem to work correctly. When I manually insert the [$e] then the dialogs ignore user-dirs.dirs.

Let's wait until I finish testing, but likely we can close this report when we formally resolve bug report 976. :)

Great!

Comment 2 Darrell 2013-04-19 14:33:42 CDT

Tagging as resolved. Refer to bug report 976 for a discussion of the fixes and patches.