Bug 377116

Summary:	Unexpected behavior when calling dolphin with a file as an argument
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Aleix Pol <aleixpol>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugseforuns, elvis.angelaccio, justin.zobel, mail, nekoxmachina
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.12.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Aleix Pol 2017-03-02 16:20:59 UTC

Example: "dolphin /etc/fstab"

What we get:
dolphin in a broken state and kate triggered to open the file.
If I wanted to open the file, I'd use xdg-open or kate directly.

What I'd like:
dolphin is opened on /etc and fstab is visibly selected. Pressing "Enter" will open the document, but I still can perform actions on the file.

Comment 1 Elvis Angelaccio 2017-04-22 08:52:43 UTC

dolphin --select /etc/fstab does what you want, but I agree that Dolphin should not treat files as folders when --select is not used.

Comment 2 Julian Steinmann 2018-05-18 18:07:17 UTC

This is still the case as of Dolphin 18.04 -> confirmed.

Comment 3 Patrick Silva 2019-03-25 15:58:27 UTC

Dolphin 18.12.3 has the same behavior on Arch Linux.

Comment 4 Mike Krutov 2019-03-25 18:13:30 UTC

I've made a small patch for this: https://phabricator.kde.org/D20049

Comment 5 Justin Zobel 2021-01-03 03:25:14 UTC

(In reply to Mike Krutov from comment #4)
> I've made a small patch for this: https://phabricator.kde.org/D20049

Are you able to review this patch and also port it to Gitlab: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/