I've tried the following short example to find out about a bug in a bigger program I am working on. It looks like QFile doesn't support unix (or the shell's) notation for the home directory:

#include <QFile>
#include <QDebug>

int main()
{
        QFile f("~/.vimrc");
        if (f.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly))
        {
                qDebug() << f.readAll();
                f.close();
        }
        else
        {
                qDebug() << f.error();
        }
}

As soon as I replace the "~" with my real home directory path, it works. Is there an easy workaround - some setting to enable? Or do I have to go the "ugly" way and ask QDir for the home directory of the current user and prepend that manually to each path?