maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 286699] x11-fm/dolphin: does not work correctly if home directory is a symlink (regression from kde5)

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Bug 286699: x11-fm/dolphin: does not work correctly if home directory is a
symlink (regression from kde5)
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=286699



--- Description ---
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