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Bug 628802 - nautilus location bar no longer recognizes ~ as /home/username
nautilus location bar no longer recognizes ~ as /home/username
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Location Bar
2.31.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 632009 637401 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-09-04 23:29 UTC by Reed Lipman
Modified: 2010-12-17 14:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Initial patch (1.24 KB, patch)
2010-09-05 00:21 UTC, Reed Lipman 		reviewed Details | Review
location-entry: don't treat '~' as a relative path (1.55 KB, patch)
2010-12-17 14:40 UTC, Cosimo Cecchi 		committed Details | Review

Description Reed Lipman 2010-09-04 23:29:18 UTC 
Entering ~ as $HOME is no longer recognized in 2.31

Steps to reproduce:
Go to /bin
Enter ~ in address bar

Error is "Could not find /~, please check the spelling and try again"
Comment 1 Reed Lipman 2010-09-05 00:21:07 UTC 
Created attachment 169500 [details] [review]
Initial patch
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-10-13 12:34:43 UTC 
*** Bug 632009 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Omer Akram 2010-11-10 10:15:14 UTC 
also reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/630512
Comment 4 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-12-17 14:02:33 UTC 
*** Bug 637401 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-12-17 14:40:12 UTC 
Thanks for the patch!
I pushed a sligthly modified version to master, without the WIN32 checks.

The following fix has been pushed:
67d0cba location-entry: don't treat '~' as a relative path
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-12-17 14:40:23 UTC 
Created attachment 176594 [details] [review]
location-entry: don't treat '~' as a relative path

Based on a patch by Reed Lipman <rmlipman@gmail.com>