Bug 504159

Summary: dolphin: does not work correctly if home directory is a symlink (regression from kde5)
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Martin <qxlddwas>
Component: view-engine: icons modeAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: john.kizer, kdedev, kfm-devel
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 25.04.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: FreeBSD Ports   
OS: FreeBSD   
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Description Martin 2025-05-13 15:55:38 UTC 
Scenario:
- FreeBSD stable/14
- latest ports
- $HOME is /users/martin
- /users/martin is a symlink to the actual home directory

Result:
- If, in dolphin's settings, the default location is set to "/users/martin", an error message pops up: "The location for the home folder is invalid or does not exist, it will not be applied."
- Entering the real home dir is o.k., but this is different from $HOME.

Expected result:
- Just as with kde5, having a symlink as $HOME should be working.

Note:
- There is another issue in that dolphin does not show thumbnails anymore (and yes I know how to turn them on and off, and configure the file types for which they should be shown). Could the underlying cause also be this misbehavior when $HOME is a symlink? Maybe this is the same as bug 503799.

-- Martin
Comment 1 Martin 2025-05-13 15:56:33 UTC 
FreeBSD bug: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=286699
Comment 2 John Kizer 2025-05-16 19:25:21 UTC 
Hi - merging this in with the existing bug report for this issue, thanks!

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 466598 ***