OLV can not load files from home directory on Linux; and can not display contents of home directory

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Run OLV on Linux
2. Use pulldown menu to attempt to open any type of local file, for example 
File > Open Log4j xml log.
3. If you have opened a file already in this OLV session, then navigate to your 
home directory
4. Use the refresh button to far right of the "Path:" line to try to get the 
browser to display something.
5. Try to get OLV to load a log file that resides in your home directory by 
keying in the full absolute path in the "Path:" field.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
When my home directory is listed in the "Path:" field up top, I expect to see a 
listing of my home directory.
Instead the listing is empty.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2013-05-15-SNAPSHOT
OpenSUSE Linux 12.3

Please provide any additional information below.
Steps 1 to 3 above are all that is required to reproduce the problem.  Steps 4 
and 5 are reasonable attempts at work-arounds that do not work.  #5 doesn't 
work as a work-around because of Issue 285.

There are 2 disastrous effects on end users here.  1: Impossible to open a file 
that resides in user home directory; 2: Impossible to use the file navigator to 
navigate to any subdirectory underneath their home directory without typing in 
a path (i.e., not "browsing").  For #2 the file browser is failing it's primary 
purpose of letting you graphically browse and navigate the filesystem, and #1 
is even worse.

Issue 266 reports this item at the end, but it is a separate issue and the 
author of 266 should have entered a separate ticket for it.  He also 
incorrectly reported that "you cannot go further down than /home/<user>/".  In 
fact, you can go further down than /home/<user>/ by keying in any subdirectory 
path in the "Path:" field.  It is only /home/<user> itself that can not be used.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by blaine.s...@admc.com on 5 Dec 2013 at 6:59

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I've verified that the problem is with the upstream 
https://code.google.com/p/otrosvfsbrowser/ project.
I'll open a ticket there now.

I sure with that OLV used Git like otrosvfsbrowser does.

Original comment by blaine.s...@admc.com on 5 Dec 2013 at 10:00

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Blocked on otrosvfsbrowser issue #4.  (Don't know how to get "Blocked on:" 
field here to work for issue in a different project).

Original comment by blaine.s...@admc.com on 10 Dec 2013 at 1:41

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