If your username is skierpage, ~ is a path to ~/skierpage. Simply put,
it's interpreted as the path to your home directory and you do not need
to specify the name. In theory you could have an actual folder named
"~skierpage" at the root of your hard drive.

** Changed in: kdebase-runtime (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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System Settings Default Applications autocompletes ~USERNAME but won't accept it
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/489825
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