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  1. Bug #208253
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Comment 2 for bug 208253

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Olaf Lenz (olenz) wrote :

After some more digging into the problem, I've found a workaround, and I think that I also found the bug itself:

The KDE Control Center Module that changes the path creates an entry in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs that has the form

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR[$e]="/home/olenz/KDesktop"

When removing the "[$e]" with an editor, and logging out and in again, the changed path persists, and everything works as intended.

The "[$e]" seems to originate from KDE, where it is found in the lines in ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals.
In ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs however, the "[$e]" has to be omitted.

I think the bug is therefore in the KDE control center module that edits the latter file. Now I wonder: is this a bug in KDE, or in Kubuntus modifications?