Bug 123784

Summary: it is not possible to access / from system:/ anymore
Product: [Unmaintained] kio Reporter: Janet <bugzilla>
Component: systemAssignee: Kevin Ottens <ervin>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 3.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Janet 2006-03-17 14:15:25 UTC 
Version:           3.5.1 (using KDE 3.5.1, Debian Package 4:3.5.1-4 (testing/unstable))
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.14-kanotix-9

Since KDE 3.5(.1) is isn't possible anymore to access the / directory from system:/. In KDE 3.4.x I used to open my home directory in system:/ and then went up to get into the directory tree. But in KDE 3.5.1 (I never tried 3.5 so don't know if it is there too) I don't get into the system tree by going up, I get back into system:/. That's weird and not very usable. Please re-add the possiblilty to access the root directory from within system:/ - either by re-enableing to access it from the home directory or by adding an extra icon for /.

(I'm running out of konqueror votes...)
Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2006-03-22 19:06:10 UTC 
This is intentional. The previous behaviour was considered buggy and fixed.
Comment 2 Janet 2006-03-23 01:38:21 UTC 
I was in fear of that answer. Can you please explain what is "buggy" about being able to access / from system:/? It is a "natural" and logical behaviour. When I use the "up" arrow in a directory /home/me I expect to get into the upper directory /home and thus into the directory tree up to / - no matter if I try to access it from /home/me or system:/home/me, system:/home/me should be the same as /home/me. And the name "system:/" indicates I can access the system directory from it. The current behaviour is very confusing. 

So I have to open another bug report as a wish to re-add it in a "non-buggy" way or to add a /-link to access the directory tree?
Comment 3 Janet 2006-03-23 02:23:48 UTC 
If you consider this being an invalid bug please change this to wishlist (though I still think this KDE 3.5.1 system:/-behaviour is a usability bug) or maybe mark it as a duplicate to Bug 117524.
Comment 4 Thiago Macieira 2006-03-24 12:35:07 UTC 
system:/ is already a root (the root of system:/). You can't go up from there, since your root directory is below it.

This is the same reason why file:/ doesn't go up to /, because they are the same thing.

Usability-wise, if you go "up" from system:/ to /, you're supposed to be able to click somewhere in / to go back to system:/. That isn't so.
Comment 5 Janet 2006-03-25 15:30:06 UTC 
> if you go "up" from system:/ to /, you're supposed to be able to click somewhere in / to go back to system:/

Thanks for the explanation. I don't appreciate it but now at least I understand the background thoughts of this behaviour.
Comment 6 Janet 2006-09-22 11:13:49 UTC 
Solved this for me by adding a filesystem.desktop to ~/.kde/share/apps/systemview with the content

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Link
Path=/
Icon=folder
Name=Filesystem

In case anybody is looking for a workaround...