https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478191
Bug ID: 478191
Summary: Places as shown in Dolphin and elsewhere do not track
the "Locations" set in System Settings
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Product: frameworks-kio
Version: 5.246.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Places
Assignee: kio-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: adam.m.fontenot+...@gmail.com
CC: k...@privat.broulik.de, kdelibs-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
The "Locations" option in System Settings appears to set the locations of
well-known directories under the XDG user dirs pseudo-specification. On many
systems, these directories will be automatically created and tools that provide
shortcuts to these directories are generally expected to respect the location
specified in the user-dirs config file.
The KDE concept of "Places" is somewhat orthogonal, but by default contains
most of these same directories that users expect. For instance, the "Places"
shown in Dolphin include "Desktop", "Documents", "Downloads", "Music",
"Pictures", etc... which are all well-known and managed under the XDG standard.
Unfortunately, the "Places" don't pick up changes made to XDG user dir
locations, either through the System Settings or via other means. This violates
user expectations, and in fact I don't think it will be clear to most users
what the "Location" settings even do.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Move one of the XDG user dirs (I picked ~/Desktop) to a new location
(~/desktop).
2. Change the location specified for the directory in System Settings > System
> Session > Locations.
3. Attempt to open the corresponding "Place" via Dolphin (or krunner, the
Okular file picker, etc).
OBSERVED RESULT
An error appears that says "The file or folder ... does not exist")
EXPECTED RESULT
The new location opens in Dolphin.
Default "places" that are mapped to well-known user directories should be
updated by KDE when the corresponding user directories are updated by System
Settings or other XDG aware tools.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.90.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.246.0
Qt Version: 6.6.1
Kernel Version: 6.6.4-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This works with no further effort in the GTK file picker.
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