Bug 400020

Summary:	Possible dolphinrc corruption after Dolphin's settings being changed for the first time
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Tyson Tan <tysontanx>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	elvis.angelaccio, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	18.08.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400093
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	dolphinrc when someting wrong happened ~/.config folder from Manjaro 17.1.12 KDE LiveUSB ~/.config folder from a freshly installed Manjaro 17.1.12 KDE system

Description Tyson Tan 2018-10-19 07:06:21 UTC

SUMMARY

Dolphin has strange behaviors after some related settings been changed for the first time. That includes the sudden disappearances of certain UI elements like the sidebar and status bar (which I did not disable); Sorting preference per folder cannot be remembered (related settings untouched) and etc,.

I have been reinstalling Manjaro 17.1.12 KDE for dozens of times this 6 months. This issue happens every time on a newly installed system, after a few minor tweaks to Dolphin and Desktop behaviors. It happened when the tweaks had been made regardless of before/after a first time full system update.

Workaround:
Delete:
~/.config/dolphinrc

Once this has been done for once, it will never happen again through out the life of that system. Therefore I suspect some kind of configuration file corruption. I will attach a copy of the problematic dolphinrc on the second comment.


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RELATED SETTINGS I TOUCHED FOR DOLPHIN

### Double click to open an item:
>> System Settings >> Workspace (section) >> Desktop Behavior >> Left column >> Workspace >> 
Click Behaviour
[X] Double-click to open files and folders


### Turn off folder thumbnails
Dolphin >> Control >> Configure Dolphin >> General >> Previews (tab)
List:
[ ] Folders


### Hide Sidebar Sections
Right-click over "section name"
>> Hide Section "section name"


### Disable Selection Marker
>> Dolphin >> Control >> Configure Dolphin >> General >> Behavior (tab)
Miscellaneous: 
[ ] Show selection marker


### Sorting preference per folder
>> Dolphin >> Toolbar >> Control >> Sort By >> 
[X] Modified
[X] Descending

This is usually when I discover Dolphin has a problem. Every time Dolphin is restarted, the sorting preference per folder was either reset or scrambled. One more possible related thing: the scrambled sorting syndrome bleeds into Gwenview in some cases. Although not this time when I reported this bug.

Comment 1 Tyson Tan 2018-10-19 07:07:36 UTC

Created attachment 115745 [details]
dolphinrc when someting wrong happened

Comment 2 Tyson Tan 2018-10-19 07:17:53 UTC

Note: this copy of dophinrc only has sorting preference per folder issue. I do not have a copy of the one with UI element issue. It was months ago. It happened twice to me.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-10-19 17:11:38 UTC

> Workaround:
> Delete:
> ~/.config/dolphinrc
> 
> Once this has been done for once, it will never happen again through out the life of that system.

Is there already a ~/.config/dolphinrc present on a new Manjaro install *before* you open Dolphin for the first time?

Comment 4 Tyson Tan 2018-10-20 02:28:16 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)

> Is there already a ~/.config/dolphinrc present on a new Manjaro install
> *before* you open Dolphin for the first time?

No, there is no dolphinrc. I've checked ~/.config with Yakuake without touching anything, both in LiveUSB and the installed system. Strangely enough though -- it somehow has a gwenviewrc but I'm sure I never opened Gwenview.

For better investigation, I will attach the content in my ~/.config folders from Manjaro 17.1.12 LiveUSB and the installed system below.

Comment 5 Tyson Tan 2018-10-20 02:31:11 UTC

Created attachment 115764 [details]
~/.config folder from Manjaro 17.1.12 KDE LiveUSB

Retrieved from command line via Yakuake, right after it boot into LiveUSB. Nothing else was touched. Not even the notifications.

Comment 6 Tyson Tan 2018-10-20 02:32:35 UTC

Created attachment 115765 [details]
~/.config folder from a freshly installed Manjaro 17.1.12 KDE system

Retrieved from command line via Yakuake, right after the system is installed. Nothing else was touched. Not even the notifications.

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2018-10-21 18:38:41 UTC

Huh, how strange. Thanks for the info.