Bug 366467

Summary:	Dolphin does not show metadata (id3) when opening symbolic link.
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	firewalker <firew4lker>
Component:	panels: information	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mail, samrog131
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description firewalker 2016-08-06 08:20:21 UTC

If you have a folder with (for example mp3 songs) Dolphin will display metadata on the information panel. If you create a symbolic link to that folder and open it with Dolphin, no metadata infos are shown.

In the picture bellow the left folder is the "original". The right one is the symbolic link to the original.

http://i.imgur.com/bGHrxAC.png

Dolphin version: 16.04.3

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a folder with mp3 songs. 
2. Create a symbolic link to that folder.
3. Open the symbolic link with Dolphin.

Actual Results:  
Dolphin does not display metadata on the symbolic link folder.

Expected Results:  
Dolphin should display metadata on the symbolic link folder.

Comment 1 Rog131 2016-08-06 15:14:08 UTC

(In reply to firewalker from comment #0)
> If you have a folder with (for example mp3 songs) Dolphin will display
> metadata on the information panel. If you create a symbolic link to that
> folder and open it with Dolphin, no metadata infos are shown.
> 
> In the picture bellow the left folder is the "original". The right one is
> the symbolic link to the original.
> 
> http://i.imgur.com/bGHrxAC.png
> 
> Dolphin version: 16.04.3
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Create a folder with mp3 songs. 
> 2. Create a symbolic link to that folder.
> 3. Open the symbolic link with Dolphin.
> 
> Actual Results:  
> Dolphin does not display metadata on the symbolic link folder.
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Dolphin should display metadata on the symbolic link folder.

Are you using the file search (Baloo) ?

Could be linked to the Bug 333678 - Cannot index and search files in soft link path using Baloo Desktop Search: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333678

At here:

Case 1 - File search enabled but the symlinked folder (partition) is on the 'Do not search' list.
The metadata is not shown: http://imgur.com/a/5Lo9B

Case 2 - File search enabled and the Baloo can index the symlinked folder.
The metadata is shown: http://imgur.com/a/SgHtE

Case 3 - File search is disabled.
The metadata is shown: http://imgur.com/a/PWNWP

Comment 2 Julian Steinmann 2018-01-27 16:38:00 UTC

After the merge of the patch for Bug 333678 I can no longer reproduce this bug (using Dolphin 17.12.1). 

This should (theoretically) resolve this bug.

Comment 3 Julian Steinmann 2018-02-14 16:25:17 UTC

Should be fixed with the patch for #333678. Closing.