Bug 418634

Summary: file associations ARE NOT REMEMBERED
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: alex <alexander.duytschaever>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: elvis.angelaccio, kfm-devel, mail, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 17.12.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description alex 2020-03-08 18:12:16 UTC
Whatever I do, the file association .mp3 is ALWAYS reset to Rhytmbox.
Comment 1 Julian Steinmann 2020-03-08 19:35:09 UTC
I cannot reproduce this issue with Dolphin 20.03.70 - file associations are changed permanently and correctly. You are using a very old version of Dolphin - please try a newer one and update the bug report with a bit more info if the bug continues to exist (e.g. what DE do you use? To which application are you trying to change the association to?).
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2020-03-08 23:23:18 UTC
> Whatever I do
What is it that you're doing? Are you changing the file associations using the File Associations page in System Settings? Can you attach a screen recording that shows you reproducing the issue?
Comment 3 alex 2020-03-11 15:46:49 UTC
Via right click I select Open With... Other > . in the search box I search for Video, and tick "Remember application association for all files of type 'mp3 audio' ... "
but this is never remembered, I always have to do this again.

<grmbl>
Comment 4 alex 2020-03-11 15:48:28 UTC
And this is Dolphin 17.12.3. One wonders what the use is of all these package managers if all you get are old versions. <GRMBL>!!!!!
Comment 5 alex 2020-03-11 15:51:09 UTC
This kind of problem should not exist in 2020...
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2020-03-11 15:51:48 UTC
> Via right click I select Open With... Other > . in the search box I search for
> Video, and tick "Remember application association for all files of type 'mp3
> audio' ... "
> but this is never remembered, I always have to do this again.
Thanks. This bug was fixed a long time ago, so once your distro provides you with newer versions of KDE software, you should get the fix.


> One wonders what the use is of all these package managers if all you get are old versions. <GRMBL>!!!!!
That's a question for your distro, not KDE. :) If we had our way, all users would always be able to use the latest version. However many distros see things differently, and provide old versions instead of the latest version. If you choose to use one of those distros you'll be using old versions of software.
Comment 7 alex 2020-03-11 16:02:20 UTC
<rant>
so... how can I no longer be plagued by this kind of @#$%^&U*I( ?
should I revert to "sudo apt-get install" situations? I remember twenty years ago users dropped Linux because if package dependency problems. twenty years ??? and still the same situation????
I so wonder how better the world would be if all these developers would UNITE their effort, rather than create islands where they reign, because they don't like something here or there.
sorry, I'm so disappointed by Gnome, KDE and all these other beasts that take a lot of disk space and still generate more irritation. I thought that nowadays the front end of a Linux machine is nice to play with - but no. All I discover is frustration, irritation, and lot's of disk space being eaten. The only thing in which these Linux frontends are nice are ... games. Specialised apps. But fundamental apps such as file browsers? And developers seem to forget that a keyboard works better than a mouse, and so my ramblings can go on.

OMG.
</rant>

sigh.
Comment 8 Nate Graham 2020-03-11 16:58:57 UTC
Sounds pretty frustrating. Maybe you should make your own distro to show everyone how it should be done!

...aaaaand that would be how we got into this situation. :)

So getting involved with an existing project is clearly preferable. If you want help users receive KDE software as close to the source as possible, I would recommend getting involved with KDE Neon which for all intents and purposes is "the KDE distro".