SUMMARY Currently when "Points to" button in desktop link properties is clicked the resolvedTargetLocation for example QUrl("desktop:/home/yerrey/Pictures/avatar.png") is resolved into "/home/yerrey/Desktop/home/yerrey/Pictures/avatar.png" which cannot be found. The following change seems to fix the issue, but I'm not too familiar with KIO code to know if this is the correct solution or misses some edge cases I'm unaware of. https://invent.kde.org/yerrey/kio/-/commit/ac516f38200557abab5a44f739c1bcc13e3ce061 With this the resolvedTargetLocation is correctly QUrl("file:///home/yerrey/Pictures/avatar.png") . STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Drag a file to your desktop, and choose "Link" 2. On your desktop, open the properties of the link 3. On the "Points to" line, hit the button to highlight the file in Dolphin OBSERVED RESULT The path cannot be found as it has prepended the correct path with Desktop path. EXPECTED RESULT Correct file is highlighted. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.96.0 Qt Version: 5.15.5 KIO: Master
Can confirm the issue and the fix looks sane. Feel free to submit it. In general, err on the side of submitting patches directly to invent.kde.org, rather than speculatively putting them in bug reports. They are likely to get missed here. See https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Issue_Reporting#Submit_patches_using_GitLab.2C_not_the_issue_tracker Thanks!
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/898