Problem with QDir::homePath()

[lemzwerg]

[GNU/Linux, Qt 4.8]

I have

HOME=/home/wl

in my environment, but

QDir::homePath()

returns "/" instead of "/home/wl".

How comes? For debugging, I've also used getenv() at the very same place in the code, and it correctly returns "/home/wl".

Werner

[andre]

Hmmm... weird.
Could you try what QDesktopServices::storageLocation(QDesktopServices::HomeLocation) returns?

[lemzwerg]

It also returns "/".

Maybe a build issue? I'm running openSuSE factory; the installed Qt package is libqt4-4.8.0-245.2 (from obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE).

[andre]

I don't know, sorry. According to the docs, it should return HOME from the environment. No idea why it doesn't in your case.

[lgeyer]

Have you tried stepping through QDir::homePath() to find out why it returns / ? As far as I know it is the fallback behaviour when the home directory couldn't be read for whatever reason.

[goetz]

The homePath is extracted from the HOME environment variable. If that is empty, the filesystem root is used:

qfilesystemengine_unix.cpp:

@
QString QFileSystemEngine::homePath()
{
QString home = QFile::decodeName(qgetenv("HOME"));
if (home.isNull())
home = rootPath();
return QDir::cleanPath(home);
}
@

So it seems your HOME env variable got lost during application startup. You should check that with

@
qDebug() << qgetenv("HOME");
@

[andre]

I figured, he already tried that:

[quote author="lemzwerg" date="1326958147"][GNU/Linux, Qt 4.8]
(...)
For debugging, I've also used getenv() at the very same place in the code, and it correctly returns "/home/wl".
[/quote]

[lemzwerg]

My mistake. I interpreted UTF-16 as UTF-8, using .constData()' instead of qPrintable(...)'. Everything's fine now, and thanks to all of you for your help.