Kile won't open files outside the home directory

[Federico Poloni]

After updating from (a fresh installation of) Precise to Quantal, Kile refuses to open any file specified on the command line.

How to reproduce:
$ cd ~
$ mkdir somedir
$ cd somedir
$ touch file.tex
$ kile file.tex

What should happen: Kile opens /home/my_user_name/somedir/file.tex
What happens instead: error message: The file /home/my_user_name/file.tex could not be loaded, as it was not possible to read from it

Package version: 1:2.1.2-0ubuntu1/i386

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Federico Poloni (fph)]

Some additional information:
* launching the program with "kile somedir/file.tex" opens the file, whether given from the home directory or from any other one. So does "kile /home/my_user_name/somedir/file.tex". It looks like the only issue is that kile uses $(HOME) as the base path rather than the current working directory for relative path.
* launching the program with tcsh rather than bash gives the same problem.
* okular (one of the only few other kde apps that I have installed, to check if it's a global kde problem rather than a kile-specific one) works as expected.
* opening files through file/open inside the application works as expected.

[Marcel Martin (marcel)]

The bug seems to have been fixed for more recent kile versions: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301808

[Joachim Protze (joachim-protze)]

Seems like kile doesn't accept the current shell directory as working dir.

-> starting kate from some directory, file/open shows the current shell dir
-> starting kile from some directory, file/open shows the user's home dir

[Kostis Leledakis (koleygr)]

May be i am writing in wrong place, but if it helps, in my lubuntu13.04,
when i try to open a file via "open with kile".. it opens an empty file...
if i try to save... it saws the path double like /home/me/Desktop/home/me/Desktop/test.tex.

PS: I am writing here because i think is exactly the same problem, and this is why doesnt find the file
as you said...

[Kostis Leledakis (koleygr)]

As a reply to my previews comment, i changed the kile.desktop file in /usr/share/applications/kde4
by replacing the line:

Exec=kile %U with the line
Exec=kile %f

This fixed my problem and now i can open files

[atoyaare (labarre-anthony)]

Thanks, I had the same problem and your fix solved it.

[Kostis Leledakis (koleygr)]

You are welocome atoyaare...

I suppose the developers can fix the bug very easy
(if it is still a bug)

There is no reason to open url with kile (i think)...