[Konsole-devel] [Bug 242114] Konsole resolves symlinks for initial path, should mimic CD/PWD behavior

[Danny Daemonic]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242114





--- Comment #6 from Danny Daemonic <DannyDaemonic gmail com>  2011-08-18 21:44:15 ---
I tested several versions, the bug still exists.

KDE 4.7.0 was not stable for me for some reason, but I tried this with both KDE
4.6.2's Konsole 2.6.2, and KDE 4.6.5's Konsole 2.6.4. 

Rereading over your initial post I now realize that you yourself confirmed this
bug.  I don't know if I can state it more simply, but Konsole behavior should
mimic that of cd/pwd.

Using your test environment, if you were to type "cd /tmp/adaptee; pwd" you'd
get:
/tmp/adaptee

However, when you set your initial working directory to "/tmp/adaptee", started
Konsole, pwd said:
/home/adaptee

The expected directory is /tmp/adaptee.  This is counter intuitive and
confusing. I'd like to refer you to bug 63014 which addresses just this issue,
but focuses on Konqueror instead of Konsole.

Here's another example to help you understand the problem.  This is again
designed for the test environment you created:
open Dolphin
navigate to /tmp
right click on adaptee and select "Open Terminal Here"

You are now in "/home/adaptee"! You would expect to be in a tmp subdirectory,
but you are not. When you "cd .." and "ls", you are expecting files from
"/tmp", but you see "/home"'s listing instead.

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