Comment 18 for bug 1422469

(In reply to Emmanuel Pescosta from comment #5)
> All bookmark changes are properly written to disk
> (.local/share/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml for KF5 and
> .kde4/share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml for kdelibs4)
>
> e.g. when I add test as bookmark following element will be added to
> bookmarks.xml:
>
> <bookmark href="file:///home/emmanuel/test">
> <title>test</title>
> <info>
> <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org">
> <bookmark:icon name="inode-directory"/>
> </metadata>
> <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org">
> <ID>1426502493/1</ID>
> <IsHidden>false</IsHidden>
> </metadata>
> </info>
> </bookmark>
>
> Also updating bookmarks on all running instances works properly.
>
> The problem happens while loading the bookmarks.

It seems to me that dolphin (kdelibs) only loads/respects ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel now, but ignores ~/.kde4/share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml. If I add a bookmark to the latter (using a text editor), it doesn't show in dolphin (and in the file open/save dialog neither); if I add it to user-places.xbel, it works (in both dolphin and the file open/save dialog).

BTW, adding an entry in the file open/save dialog makes it appear in dolphin as well.