Bug 286699 - x11-fm/dolphin: does not work correctly if home directory is a symlink (regression from kde5)
Summary: x11-fm/dolphin: does not work correctly if home directory is a symlink (regre...
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-kde (group)
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Reported: 2025-05-09 18:11 UTC by Martin Birgmeier
Modified: 2025-05-15 07:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (kde)


Attachments
patch for missing thumbnails when using oxygen theme (3.05 KB, patch)
2025-05-15 07:10 UTC, Martin Birgmeier
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Description Martin Birgmeier 2025-05-09 18:11:14 UTC
Scenario:
- FreeBSD stable/14
- latest ports
- $HOME is /users/martin
- /users/martin is a symlink to the actual home directory

Result:
- If, in dolphin's settings, the default location is set to "/users/martin", an error message pops up: "The location for the home folder is invalid or does not exist, it will not be applied."
- Entering the real home dir is o.k., but this is different from $HOME.

Expected result:
- Just as with kde5, having a symlink as $HOME should be working.

Note:
- There is another issue in that dolphin does not show thumbnails anymore (and yes I know how to turn them on and off, and configure the file types for which they should be shown). I suspect that the underlying cause might also be this misbehavior when $HOME is a symlink.
- There was also bug 285244.

-- Martin
Comment 1 Martin Birgmeier 2025-05-11 08:30:57 UTC
See also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503799 regarding the missing thumbnails (not primarily related to this bug report).

-- Martin
Comment 2 Max Brazhnikov freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2025-05-12 20:05:58 UTC
(In reply to Martin Birgmeier from comment #0)
Please, report (In reply to Martin Birgmeier from comment #1)(In reply to Martin Birgmeier from comment #0)

Please report upstream, I believe the problem is not FreeBSD specific.

As for missing thumbnails, I cannot confirm it. Dolphin displays both image and video thumbnails for me.
Comment 3 Martin Birgmeier 2025-05-13 15:56:11 UTC
(In reply to Max Brazhnikov from comment #2)

I opened https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504159.

-- Martin
Comment 4 Martin Birgmeier 2025-05-14 19:18:02 UTC
The missing thumbnails issue seems to be solved in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504126. That one is a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503799.

-- Martin
Comment 5 Martin Birgmeier 2025-05-15 07:10:46 UTC
Created attachment 260423 [details]
patch for missing thumbnails when using oxygen theme

The attached patch reverts the two commits mentioned in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504126, resulting in thumbnail generation working again.

I should probably change the title of this bug report...

-- Martin