Bug 254549

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

Let said you have two files (in the same or different folders) and at least one of those files has a dollar sign followed by a number or letter in the file name (e.g. test$1.txt or test$z.foo) and you selected both in dolphin and did a compare, Kompare will try to open open that file without that $x (e.g. the files will be test.txt or text.foo)

I think dolphin is stripping those before passing the names to kompare, since when opening the files directly from kompare it works just fine.

I tested different symbols such as ! @ #  % &, but it seems that only $ is getting stripped.
If $ was the last character in the file name it will still work fine (e.g. test$.foo)

If you happen to have a file with a similar name after the stripped file kompare will open that instead. (e.g. I have test.foo and test$1.foo, so kompare will open test.foo)

Dolphin v1.4

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Create two different files and name them:
test.foo
test$1.foo

from dolphin select both files and from Tools do "Compare Files"

Actual Results:  
Kompare will report that files are identical since it was comparing test.foo to itself after the $1 got stripped from the second file name.

Expected Results:  
Kompare should open the two files correctly and they are different.