Bug 443999

Summary:	Dolphin Flatpak unable to edit File Type Options for file properties
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	dennise8
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	kfm-devel, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	21.08.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Flatpak
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description dennise8 2021-10-18 21:24:01 UTC

Dolphin Flatpak unable to edit File Type Options for file properties. I have tried allowing all permissions in Flatseal and that did not produce a different result.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open dolphin
2. Right click on any file type (.ods, .png, etc)
3. Click on the File Type Options button under Type

OBSERVED RESULT
An message box pops up with Could not start the "keditfiletype5" executable, please check your installation.

EXPECTED RESULT
Being able to edit file type options when that button is clicked.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: 5.14.12-arch1-1
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.87.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

Dolphin flatpak version: 21.08.2
Flatpak version: flatpak 1.12.2-1
Flatseal version: 1.7.4

Comment 1 dennise8 2021-10-18 21:27:50 UTC

Folders are also impacted.

UPDATED STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open dolphin
2. Right click on any file type OR FOLDER (.ods, .png, folder, etc)
3. Click on the File Type Options button under Type

Comment 2 dennise8 2021-11-10 12:34:03 UTC

Anyone able to take a look at this bug it is still occurring 3 weeks later with newer updates.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: 5.14.16-arch1-1
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.87.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Graphics Platform: X11

Dolphin flatpak version: 21.08.2
Flatpak version: flatpak 1.12.2-1
Flatseal version: 1.7.4

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-11-11 15:38:46 UTC

Copy-pasting from a recent Reddit comment about this, with light edits:

It's not really a Dolphin bug, but the way containerized applications lock themself out of the rest of the system. This is arguably a packaging bug, since a file manager that doesn't have full access to the filesystem is less than useful as a file manager. You should ask the Dolphin Flatpak packagers to allow the app full access to the filesystem by default in their packaging, because, that's kind of like the whole point of a file manager. :)

Comment 4 dennise8 2021-11-11 15:50:07 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> Copy-pasting from a recent Reddit comment about this, with light edits:
> 
> It's not really a Dolphin bug, but the way containerized applications lock
> themself out of the rest of the system. This is arguably a packaging bug,
> since a file manager that doesn't have full access to the filesystem is less
> than useful as a file manager. You should ask the Dolphin Flatpak packagers
> to allow the app full access to the filesystem by default in their
> packaging, because, that's kind of like the whole point of a file manager. :)

Thank you. I have made a ticket on the github page.

https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.dolphin/issues/57