Version: 1.4 (using KDE 4.4.2) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages When configured to 'Remember view properties for each folder', Dolphin uses a default view for folders that have not been visited previously and do not have a view configured in a .directory file contained within the folder. A glitch is occurring when viewing a remote folder (e.g. via SFTP). If you change that remote folder's view, the new view mode is applied as the default view for all local folders that do not have a .directory file. To replicate: 1. Ensure Dolphin is configured to remember view properties for each folder. 2. Open two tabs in home dir. This test assumes that you have the defaults in placed which means the two tabs open the home dir in Icons view mode. 3. Create new empty folder in home dir to use for testing (or locate one that does not have a .directory entry) 4. In the second tab, open sftp connection to remote host and open an arbitrary folder. 5. In the second tab, change the view mode to Details 6. Now in the first tab, open the newly created folder. Expected: the folder opens in Icons mode Actual: the folder opens in Details mode My guess is because Dolphin won't remember view properties for remote folders, it applies any change in view mode in a remote folder as the new default view mode.
SVN commit 1128615 by ppenz: Don't change the default view properties, if the view mode is changed on a remote folder. BUG: 234852 M +4 -15 viewproperties.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1128615
SVN commit 1128622 by ppenz: Backport of SVN commit 1128615: Don't change the default view properties, if the view mode is changed on a remote folder. CCBUG: 234852 M +3 -14 viewproperties.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1128622
Thanks Chris for the detailed bug report, it helped me a lot to reproduce the issue (I faced this issue myself too sometimes, but never found out how to reproduce it).
Tested the patch in KDE SC 4.4.4 (Dolphin 1.4) on Kubuntu 10.04 - fix works for me :)
Hey there! I'm having trouble with view modes too, but I've narrowed it down, view modes seem to act funny when you're working with a VFAT filesystem. It can't remember a folders view mode even within the SAME SESSION. No matter how many times you click "View">>"View Mode">>"Icons" on a VFAT fs, if you leave that directory and then come back, it keeps going back to detail mode. _No_mattter_HOW_you_set_it_up_in_ 'configure this' or 'default that'...That help??
@abcdefz: This might be an issue in the vfat io-slave then. If Dolphin has write access for local files, it tries to remember the view properties within the folder. It seems in the case of vfat this does not work, but no error seems to get returned... Would it be possible that you submit a custom bug report for this? Thanks!
Bug 243414 Be in touch, jdg Jeffrey D. Glock jdg@jglock.com +1.410.925.6705 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Penz <peter.penz@gmx.at> Reply-to: bug-control@bugs.kde.org To: jdg@jglock.com Subject: [Bug 234852] Default view setting changes when viewing remote folder Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:49:57 +0200 (CEST) https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234852 --- Comment #6 from Peter Penz <peter penz gmx at> 2010-07-02 10:49:56 --- @abcdefz: This might be an issue in the vfat io-slave then. If Dolphin has write access for local files, it tries to remember the view properties within the folder. It seems in the case of vfat this does not work, but no error seems to get returned... Would it be possible that you submit a custom bug report for this? Thanks!