[dolphin] [Bug 500499] Dolphin ignores XDG_USER_DIRS infrastructure?

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500499

--- Comment #2 from incansvl at gmail.com ---
(In reply to John from comment #1)
> Probably!
> By default after installing the OS (Debian 13 - Trixie) I'm missing the Home
> and Trash folders on the Desktop and in the locations sidebar of Dolphin
> only Home and Trash are present (the ones that are missing from Desktop).
> Even the Downloads is missing, which is pretty used these days, but I don't
> know who created it, maybe it was Firefox and if you never download anything
> is ok not to have it.
> Maybe they are missing because they are too many and by default Dolphin
> opens in windowed mode.
> So it could be intentional.
> 
> But as a multi-language user, similar to my parents and friends, I wish that
> such a standard works complete and as it should if there's a problem with it.

Not quite sure this is the same aspect that you are referring to, but given
that the well known folders and xdg-user-dirs infrastructure are only (by
default) only set up for a user when that user logs in, I have ended up writing
a script, to be run as admin/root, that forcibly creates all the well known
folders for all the real (human) users, and then potentially writes the
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file for each user.

Unfortunately, as logged in this bug, Dolphin at least doesn't take account of
this so it is not robust.

My fallback solution is to look at the more traditional ways of doing this,
using either symlinks or bind mounts. However given that the XDG_USER_DIRS
mechanism is designed specifically for this purpose, it's annoying that it is
only half-implemented.

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