Bug 243414

Summary:	View modes not working properly, when the 'browsed' fs is mounted as VFAT
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	abcdefz <jdg>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	anselmolsm, faure, finex, jdg, mat69
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description abcdefz 2010-07-02 10:39:03 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.4) 
OS:                Linux

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", (and it DOES redraw the screen properly, at first), if you leave that directory and come back to it IMMEDIATELY, the thing has reverted to Detail Mode.

It's a pain.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
On a VFAT mounted fs, while using Dolphin to rove around, no matter how many times you click "View">>"View Mode">>"Icons", (and it DOES redraw the screen properly, at first), if you leave that directory and come back to it IMMEDIATELY, the thing has reverted to Detail Mode.

Actual Results:  
See "Steps to Reproduce"

Expected Results:  
See "Steps to Reproduce"

OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.32.14-127.fc12.i686.PAE
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 abcdefz 2010-07-02 10:55:09 UTC

The exact same thing seems to happen in Konqueror 4.4.4...

Comment 2 Peter Penz 2010-07-02 10:57:34 UTC

@David: Dolphin tries to remember the view properties in the folder for local writable folders (see constructor of http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/dolphin/src/viewproperties.cpp?view=markup).

Might it be that with VFAT the following code:
    if (url.isLocalFile()) {
        m_filePath = url.toLocalFile();
        const QFileInfo info(m_filePath);
        if (!info.isWritable()) {
            m_filePath = destinationDir("local") + m_filePath;
        }
    }

indicates that the folder is local + writeable, but saving with
    KStandardDirs::makeDir(m_filePath);
    m_node->writeConfig();
fails?

Hmm, I've a kind of deja-vu - didn't we discuss this already once? ;-)

Comment 3 Anselmo L. S. Melo (anselmolsm) 2010-08-01 18:11:31 UTC

Reproduced with KDE SC 4 svn r1157874 (KDE 4.5.62 (KDE 4.6 >=20100729))

Comment 4 Matthias Fuchs 2011-05-29 00:38:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 182177 ***