[dolphin] [Bug 437632] Dolphin launched via link does not display overlapping icon for Samba shares

[Harald Sitter]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437632

Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> ---
I feel like I've seen a similar bug report a couple months ago though for the
life of me I can't remember what the specifics were.

What I **think** happens here is that since you are inside a symlink the
effective path of the directory is /home/stalker/Desktop/stalker/Apps which
dolphin then doesn't find in the database of samba usershares because the path
there is /home/stalker/Apps. i.e. something (not necessarily dolphin) would
need to at some point resolve the path (which includes a symlink) to the
canonical file path (which includes no symlinks anywhere).
This is kind of problematic though because that would have to happen for every
single directory that ever gets displayed in the view, potentially causing a
lot of unnecessary disk access but certainly causing unnecessary power drain
for basically only this niche corner case of share overlays (I dont think we
have other overlays?). I'm not sure this is necessarily something we want to
solve from an energy efficiency POV.

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