Bug 274861

Summary: places panel home path is not synchronized with preferences->startup->"Home Folder"
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: mattm3a
Component: panels: placesAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: adaptee, kde, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description mattm3a 2011-06-03 19:40:34 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

The Places panel home path seems to be completely independent of the preferences home folder. Changing the preferences home folder has no effect on the home panel path. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Change preferences->startup->"Home Folder" to set home, for example to /home/user/temp
2) Select Places tab home link

Actual Results:  
Home link is unchanged (for the example, not /home/user/temp)

Expected Results:  
Home link should match the link set in preferences
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2011-12-20 14:30:24 UTC 
Well the "Home Folder" in Dolphin settings is just the folder that is automatically opened when you launch Dolphin, similar to a web browser’s home page whereas the "Home" entry in the places is your actual /home/username folder that is placed there as a shortcut for convenience; so actually those two things have nothing in common :)
Comment 2 Jekyll Wu 2012-01-02 13:20:49 UTC 
I think the "Home" entry in the places panel should always open $HOME. Places are conceptually static and independent of dolphin settings.

One the other hand, the "Home" action follows the value of the "Home Folder". 

So the current state is really a bit confusing.
Comment 3 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:20:05 UTC 
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2017-09-03 01:56:25 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 212565 ***