Devuan bug report logs - #594
plasma-workspace: KRunner starts programs in the filesystem root

Package: plasma-workspace; Maintainer for plasma-workspace is (unknown); Source for plasma-workspace is src:plasma-workspace.

Reported by: Hannah Rittich <void@rittich.net>

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: debian

Found in version 4:5.20.5-6

Forwarded to https://bugs.debian.org/991439

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: Hannah Rittich <void@rittich.net>, 594@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: bug#594: plasma-workspace: KRunner starts programs in the
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Hannah,

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 06:45:04PM +0200, Hannah Rittich wrote:
> Package: plasma-workspace
> Version: 4:5.20.5-6
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: void@rittich.net
> 
> Starting a program with KRunner used to start the program with the
> working directory set to the user's home directory. In Chimaera KRunner
> now starts programs with the working directory set to the root of the
> filesystem. This behavior is problematic for the following reasons.

Thanks for this.

However, neither plasma-workspace nor any other  KDE pacakges are forked in
Devuan and we use Debian's packages directly and without recompilation.

Please could you report this issue directly to Debian's BTS?

Thanks

Mark

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Devuan bug report logs - #594 plasma-workspace: KRunner starts programs in the filesystem root

Devuan bug report logs - #594
plasma-workspace: KRunner starts programs in the filesystem root