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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 166088] Unable to change home directory in dolphin
From:       Josep Febrer <josep () idomenorca ! com>
Date:       2009-01-12 15:40:20
Message-ID: 20090112154020.2991813D16 () immanuel ! kde ! org
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--- Comment #23 from Josep Febrer <josep idomenorca com>  2009-01-12 16:40:19 ---
I just put this comment on the bug 169016 which is a very similar bug to the
reported here:


I had the same trouble as reported by this bug, since KDE 4.2 beta2 and
discovered that it has more to do with the xdg-user-dirs-update command that it
is available on more recent distributions.
This command which is executed on the session start ensures that the path some
directories such as user desktop, documents, pictures, music, etc. corresponds
to the user locale so for example if the user change it's locale from english
to another, the desktop user path it's not /home/user/Desktop and the directory
Desktop it is renamed to it's locale equivalent.

The problem with Dolphin and also in the KDE open file dialog is that it starts
on the direcory specified by the variable XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR, in my case it was
set to /home/josep/Documents and even if in Dolphin I had another startup
folder this one prevailed, also if I changed the Documents folder on
SystemSettings when I restarted my KDE session it when back
/home/josep/Documents because of xdg-user-dirs-update.

So the real fix for this was to edit the file $HOME/.config/user-dirs.update
and change the value of XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents" to
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME"

But I think the more convenient fix is to see why XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR prevailed
over $HOME, or in the user paths systemsettings let to put startup folder for
filemanagement.


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