Version: 2.0 (using Devel) OS: Linux perhaps I should describe multiple problems here: - dolphin seems not to refresh folders. for example after copying some files, and paste them via ctrl+v. they appear after refreshing the view (F5) - often, when I open folders, the view area is blank, sometimes refresh (F5) helps, sometimes not and I have to switch between folders multiple times, after the view is displayed I always use detailed-view with only folder-view on the left Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: see above Actual Results: see above Expected Results: see above OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop Compiler: gcc
I cannot reproduce the first issue - this sounds like a duplicate of bug 211472 and might be related to a not installed fam or an issue in KDirWatch. The second issue might be related to bug 290182, which has been fixed recently. Do you use an up-to-date version of Dolphin or RC2?
I use the opensuse-rc2 packages from obs. fam is installed (did not know what that is until now :-)) I hope the first issue will disappear in final 4.8 ..
its even worse with issue 1: often, when the folder contents are correctly displayed, and I then hit refresh (F5), it gets blank
perhaps this problem only appears, when I dolphin is restored at login. at least I cannot reproduce after a restart.
(In reply to comment #1) > I cannot reproduce the first issue - this sounds like a duplicate of bug 211472 > and might be related to a not installed fam or an issue in KDirWatch. Isn't fam obsolete and replaced by inotify in KDE? I've gamin installed, but only as a Samba dependency. I can definitely confirm bug 211472. This is pretty much very old critical bug. Maybe Dolphin should skip KIO/KDirWatch in this case and use kernel inotify directly?
> Isn't fam obsolete and replaced by inotify in KDE? AFAIK KDirWatch should support both. > Maybe Dolphin should skip KIO/KDirWatch in this case > and use kernel inotify directly? This is not possible if you don't want to lose all IO-slave in Dolphin ;-) The strange thing is that this issue in KDirWatch seems only to occur on some distributions and it looks related to a configuration problem: On my Suse default installation I've the same problem, with my custom compiled KDE everything works fine. This still might indicate a problem in KDirWatch, but obviously it is not an issue that occurs in all environments.
(In reply to comment #6) > with my custom compiled KDE > everything works fine. This still might indicate a problem in KDirWatch, but > obviously it is not an issue that occurs in all environments. That strange, indeed. Are you using FAM? Arch build are pretty much vanilla, so... I will try my luck without -DWITH_FAM=OFF and fam daemon. btw. Here's interesting screenshot ( http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/7475/snapshotvk.png ). This bug not only look random but results are different among apps.
(In reply to comment #7) > I will try my luck without -DWITH_FAM=OFF and fam daemon. Nothing changed with FAM. Still random behavior ;(
Sorry Peter for bothering you again about this, but I've found some pattern for scenario similar to this from screenshot above. I think it can be easly reproduced and I'm not sure anymore about KDirWatch fault. Looks like KDirWatch works fine. Please taka a look at this. http://youtu.be/y10uE7Ey5lA
Thanks for the video and your efforts to help! My guess us that the issue in your video has the same root cause as bug 290172 that has been fixed after RC2. Sadly I cannot investigate further into this at the moment to be 100% sure... :-(
ah, typo: meant bug 290182
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Is it still an issue in recent versions like KDE SC 4.8.5 or 4.9 ?
(In reply to comment #13) > Is it still an issue in recent versions like KDE SC 4.8.5 or 4.9 ? Yes.
(In reply to comment #14) > (In reply to comment #13) > > Is it still an issue in recent versions like KDE SC 4.8.5 or 4.9 ? > > Yes. Is that 'yes' meant for the "dolphin seems not to refresh folders" issue? In that case, it's probably been fixed just today (bug 211472), and this report can be closed.
Of course. Great news, btw. Thanks.
All right, let's close it then. Thanks!