Bug 356671

Summary:	Tilde (~) seems to not be expanded properly by plasma internally
Product:	[Plasma] Plasma SDK	Reporter:	twisted_fall <twisted.fall>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	antonis.tsiapaliokas
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.5.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description twisted_fall 2015-12-14 11:47:20 UTC

I have 2 directories created by plasma named literally "~" inside my home directory. One is at the top level, and the other one under .config. I tried creating a new user to check if it's not the migration from kde4 problem, but they are still created.

$ find /home/test -name '~'
/home/test/~
/home/test/.config/~

The contain one file each, the first one:
/home/test/~/.local/share/kde/share/apps/color-schemes/Breeze.colors
The second one:
/home/test/.config/~/.local/share/kde/share/config/kdeglobals

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 twisted_fall 2015-12-15 13:45:31 UTC

I solved it, it was because of my KDEHOME="~/.local/share/kde" for KDE4. It seems that some KDE5 applications still pick up this env variable, but don't expand ~ unlike KDE4.

Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 07:30:27 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.