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When ~/bar is entered as a workspace location, the ~ is not expanded resulting in the creation of a folder called "~" inside of which there will be a folder called "bar".
It turns out that this is a common problem in eclipse. The expansion works properly in things like file choosers (since its a native control) but not in things like the prefs import/export dialogs. I'm forwarding this to billy to keep with his growing collection of this type of bug. Once a common solution has been figured out I don't mind applying the changes to the workspace selection dialog if needed.
*** Bug 169385 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant. -- The automated Eclipse Genie.
I would still like to see this fixed. If you try to open a workspace at, e.g. "~/some/dir" then you end up with a directory called "/home/$USER/~/some/dir" when the user intended it to be "/home/$USER/some/dir" And then the "~" directory is hard (and possibly dangerous!) to delete because your shell expands ~ to /home/$USER if you are not careful
