[dolphin] [Bug 494679] Dolphin populates "Create new" menu with the content of home dir

[Massimiliano L]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494679

--- Comment #8 from Massimiliano L <m.lincetto at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Christian (Fuchs) from comment #5)
> (In reply to Eugene Shalygin from comment #4)
> 
> > What do I need to look for with respect to XDG config?
> 
> Found the bug, in my 
> 
> .config/user-dirs.dirs
> 
> I had the line
> XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
> 
> Which I assume some old versions or distributions have set as the default.
> Setting that to something else will fix the bug.
> I wonder if there should be a check for that, since technically dolphin is
> behaving correctly, I just wonder why it only started doing that very
> recently, and why some systems have that value set and some do not.

I have two Fedora installations with more or less the same age and the problem
affected only one of the two. I believe this could have been a consequence of
the user deleting the ~/Templates directory and whatever created/updated
.config/user-dirs.dirs afterwards defaulted to $HOME/.

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