[dolphin] [Bug 446210] New: Allow changing XDG user dirs locations from the folder properties

[Bart Ribbers]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=446210

            Bug ID: 446210
           Summary: Allow changing XDG user dirs locations from the folder
                    properties
           Product: dolphin
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: bribbers+kdebugzilla at disroot.org
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY
This is something Windows Explorer does and is actually quite nice. If the user
wants to move say their "Documents" or "Videos" folder to a different location
or even drive, they can right click the folder, go to folder properties and set
a new location for that folder. It will make a new folder on the new location,
ask the user if the contents of the old location should be moved over there
too, and from that point on the "Documents" folder will be in the new location.

To do the same on Linux right now you have to manually edit a config file,
specifically "$HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs", which is bad UX imo. Then people
will say "just mount your /home on a different drive" but maybe you want to
move only the Videos folder. And I'd say mounting /home somewhere else than
going with your distros default is quite an advanced task, not suitable for the
average user. It would be nice if Dolphin allowed changing those folder
locations via the folder properties window.

When typing this bug I found https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428112
through which I realized it was already possible to move these locations, but I
find the systemsettings quite an intuitive place. If I hadn't found that bug, I
wouldn't have known it was possible to change those locations via a GUI at all.
I'd say Dolphin should have this functionality also, even just to cater to old
Windows users, _alongside_ systemsettings having the option.

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