SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Set a primary language that's not english (in my case hungarian) 2. Update to 5.22 OBSERVED RESULT The update not only changed the names of my home dir folders, but deleted my Downloads folder completely. I am also not able to change them back to english, becuase removing hungarian completely seems to have no effect on xdg-user-dirs-update , and it just recreates the hungarian folders, even after manually deleting the user-dirs.dirs and user-dirs.locale files in .config. I even tried manually changing user-dirs.locale to en_US, but it just pops back to hu_HU(even though I completely removed that from system settings). I was not able to reproduce the bug with xdg-user-dirs-update, it seems to be directly tied to the plasma update (I didn't try rolling back and updating again, so it might not be reproducible). EXPECTED RESULT First, it shouldn't delete my files. That's extremely bad behavior. Second, I should be able to set my home default folders back to english without any issues. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.12.9-arch1-1 Archlinux/5.22 KDE Plasma (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.22 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82 Qt Version: 5.15.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Jesus. Męven, can you investigate? I suspect this is related to the localized XDG dirs stuff you worked on.
I mean Méven, of course. :)
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > Jesus. > > Męven, can you investigate? I suspect this is related to the localized XDG > dirs stuff you worked on. The part where now default paths are translated in the kcm desktoppaths is due to https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/252/diffs but not the rest. > The update not only changed the names of my home dir folders, but deleted my Downloads folder completely I suspect this is not be due to KDE software, but xdg-utils or Archlinux scripts. I don't think we have any code that would delete or even move a xdg-desktoppaths, we rely on `xdg-user-dirs-update` for this. > I mean Méven, of course. :) No worries if you don't include the accent in my first-name, it is not even on your keyboard. > I even tried manually changing user-dirs.locale to en_US Well if the local in user-dirs.locale does not match your current local, it means the file is outdated (and user-dirs.dirs) and should be ignored, it is what happens in your case. Removing `user-dirs.dirs` and `user-dirs.locale` and running `xdg-user-dirs-update` will recreate the dirs based on your local the same way. What you want is to keep user-dirs.locale to your local, hu_HU, and edit the values in user-dirs.dirs either using xdg-user-dirs-update or the kcm desktoppaths: xdg-user-dirs-update --set DOWNLOAD $HOME/Downloads (then relaunch systemsettings to have it take into account in the KCM). > I was not able to reproduce the bug with xdg-user-dirs-update What did you do exactly to say that ?
>I don't think we have any code that would delete or even move a xdg-desktoppaths, we rely on `xdg-user-dirs-update` for this. We do not (we used to aaages ago but it was removed) Reporter also mentions this happening after upgrade, changes to a KCM won't be relevant unless the KCM is run. It's worth mentioning Arch has a bug in xdg-user-dirs. Downstream they've created a systemd unit file that runs /really/ early in the user boot process, before locale has been set regardless of which plasma mode is used. I don't know how that could ever work properly (found from an offtopic discussion at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18791#issuecomment-788930477). I don't think we can do much as Plasma until something is proved otherwise.
(In reply to Méven Car from comment #3) > (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > > Jesus. > > > > Męven, can you investigate? I suspect this is related to the localized XDG > > dirs stuff you worked on. > > The part where now default paths are translated in the kcm desktoppaths is > due to > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/252/diffs but > not the rest. > > > The update not only changed the names of my home dir folders, but deleted my Downloads folder completely > > I suspect this is not be due to KDE software, but xdg-utils or Archlinux > scripts. > I don't think we have any code that would delete or even move a > xdg-desktoppaths, we rely on `xdg-user-dirs-update` for this. > > > I mean Méven, of course. :) > No worries if you don't include the accent in my first-name, it is not even > on your keyboard. > > > I even tried manually changing user-dirs.locale to en_US > > Well if the local in user-dirs.locale does not match your current local, it > means the file is outdated (and user-dirs.dirs) and should be ignored, it is > what happens in your case. > > Removing `user-dirs.dirs` and `user-dirs.locale` and running > `xdg-user-dirs-update` will recreate the dirs based on your local the same > way. > > What you want is to keep user-dirs.locale to your local, hu_HU, and edit the > values in user-dirs.dirs either using xdg-user-dirs-update or the kcm > desktoppaths: > > xdg-user-dirs-update --set DOWNLOAD $HOME/Downloads (then relaunch > systemsettings to have it take into account in the KCM). > > > I was not able to reproduce the bug with xdg-user-dirs-update > > What did you do exactly to say that ? Now that you clarified how the locale setting which I changed does not have any effect, what I did wouldn't be able to reproduce the bug anyway, so it might be reproducible by properly changing back the locale, running xdg-user-dirs-update, changing the locale again, and re-running it. But I think it is clear at this point that I don't have nearly enough knowledge to help you. I set back everything to hungarian, so another update won't do any harm hopefully.
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Ok, I'm sorry for your files, but I'm afraid we can't do much at this point. We've done a check our side, we can't find anything that points to KDE. If you can make a reproducible case in a VM we can investigate again, but at this point leaving this open won't help