Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: kdebase-runtime
Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic amd64
System Settings 1.0 in KDE 4.3.2
Summary: The dialog where you select a preferred application understands
paths starting with ~ and ~USERNAME, but then System Settings complains
"'~/path/to/binary' not found."
I have nightly Firefox installed in ~USERNAME/programs. I tried to use
System Settings > Default Applications > Web Browser to set this as my
default browser. I chose "In the following browser" and clicked the
[...]. The dialog that appears prompts "Select preferred Web browser
application:". In this if I press ~ it autocompletes ~skierpage (my
username) and autocompletes every section of the path. But when I click
[OK], I get:
Error - System Settings
'~skierpage/programs/firefox/firefox' not found, please type a valid program
name.
The same is true for ~/programs/firefox/firefox -- the dialog
autocompletes it, then you get an error from System Settings. You can
reproduce this for other default applications.
Expected behavior:
The dialog and System Settings should be in sync about what sort of paths are
acceptable. If System Settings really can't store application paths starting
with ~ and ~USERNAME then it could expand ~USERNAME in the path instead of
complaining about it.
The workaround is to enter /home/USERNAME in the dialog.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 28 19:24:22 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/systemsettings
Package: systemsettings 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu7.1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: kdebase-workspace
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1862): GLib-CRITICAL **:
g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
** Affects: kdebase-runtime (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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System Settings Default Applications autocompletes ~USERNAME but won't accept it
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/489825
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