This is a highly annoying bug.. I confirm that it is across all of KDE as comment 11 says.
No program should assume it will be started from any particular cwd and use that cwd blindly. Also, no program should assume that any cwd that it DOES start in is invalid and should be overridden. Either case violates the principle of least surprise. Either a program should go to some specific directory, hopefully configured and not hardcoded (and ignore cwd altogether), OR the program should graciously use whatever cwd happens to be. So, that said, the problem is NOT with whatever programs might be doing with the cwd that the parent-of-all KDE is passing on to them. In most cases they ARE doing the correct thing. In the cases where having KDE *not* use ~/Documents as its cwd would break some programs, it is *those* programs that are doing something wrong. The problem, then, is KDE changing cwd to ~/Documents in the parent process that forks all other gui applications, and changing it back to ~ *should* not pose any damage. If it does, it is a bug in something else. Some grepping revealed absolutely no textual or otherwise configuration files that determine where KDE changes its cwd to. /usr/bin/kde4-config, however, matches for both DOCUMENTS and Documents. And no, I do not believe changing DOCUMENTS=Documents in /etc/xdg/user- dirs.defaults is a proper or desirable solution. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kde-workspace in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/867820 Title: getcwd() function from python module os returns wrong directory in kubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kdebase-workspace/+bug/867820/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
