| Summary: | Documents path used incorrectly in multiple places | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kdelibs | Reporter: | Georg Wittenburg <georg.wittenburg> |
| Component: | kdecore | Assignee: | kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | 1123monkey, alec, ardovm, bugs, felix.schweighofer, flying-sheep, greeneg, L.S.Lowe, lars.koraeus, lumks, michaelsprivate, plusfabi, rakuco, revinary |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Debian testing | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | little bash script that will show up the bug | ||
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Description
Georg Wittenburg
2009-07-22 09:01:02 UTC
Still present in 4.4.1. *** Bug 230310 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Anyone reading this should also read Bug 230310 because together they show the problem is a general one. I've also reported this to Fedora 12 bugzilla. Why does Status still say UNCONFIRMED, 8 months after original report? This bug is more severe than just NORMAL This makes it impossible to umount/mount a Documents directory. The work around now is to set the Documents paths to $HOME. Cannot see that any application jet use this path. What is UNCONFIRMED This must be the most obvious flaw and is easy to check and understand the implication of. I'm seeing this in 4.4.2 on Solaris as well - I agree w. Lars that this should be treated as a serious problem, if not a regression. This bug is present in the KDE version 4.4.2, that is currently shipped with Kubuntu 10.04 LTS still there on kde 4.6.2 the documents folder should be default *only* for office applications, not for anything else. This seems to be more a personal taste case than a bug, really. Case and point, it's my opinion that most applications that generate content should point their directory to ~/Documents, not ~/, so this default makes sense. With your case of 'cat /some/random/file > bar', again, this makes a certain level of sense, as many apps do not properly adjust to the Documents setting. The only use-case which bothers me is when I'm downloading stuff via Konqueror, I'd really prefer if it put stuff by default in ~/Downloads, instead of my ~/Documents directories. no, not really. AFAIK a „document“ is a spreadsheed, a text document (.odf/.doc), a presentation, a .tex file, a pdf file, a HTML file … Kile, KOffice, Okular, Quanta+ … should default to ~/Documents. (And the browsers for opening files) KTorrent, KGet, … should default to ~/Downloads. (And the browsers for downloads) Kaffeine and Dragon Player should default to ~/Videos. Kate and Dolphin should default to ~, since they are general purpose tools. *** Bug 282735 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** not fixed in 4.7 and 4.8dev :( Created attachment 72237 [details]
little bash script that will show up the bug
still there in 4.9 Beta
Open a terminal > you will land in your documents dir, set in your kde settings, not $HOME this will cause a fail if you want to run some bash script via click in dolphin
there is a little bash script that will show the bug via a kdialog. there is no "path to home directory" in kde. all applications use the documents path
well, you can have that easier:
kdialog --msgbox "You are in $PWD"
I'm using KDE 4.9.2 on Arch 64 and the Bug is still present. Applications started from krunner or via Desktop file created using the Startup & Shutdown kcm module default to ~/Documents. This is particulary annoying for file managers and terminal emulators. Also, I don't really see the significance of the Documents folder - it seems random. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 183534 *** |