Bug 449537

Summary:	Enabling show full path checkbox in Dolphin location bar is not preserved between invocations, '>' interface is hard to use
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	KDE end user <jim.crew>
Component:	bars: location	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	felixernst, kdedev, kfm-devel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	20.12.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description KDE end user 2022-02-03 00:54:36 UTC

SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Start Doplhin
2. Right click on a folder in the location bar
3. Check checkbox "Show full path"
4. Quit Dolphin
5. Start Dolphin
6. Right click on a folder in the location bar

OBSERVED RESULT
Check box set in step 3, above, is not preserved between sessions.

EXPECTED RESULT
Check box set in step 3, above, should be preserved between sessions.
New interface is hard to use, trying to hit a single '>' character is unnecessarily difficult, previous version wasn't such a challenge.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows:
macOS:
Linux/KDE Plasma: Bullseye 64 bit 11.2
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The whole breadcrumb location bar interface behaves inconsistently (bug 442239). I moved from Ubuntu 16.04 to Debian Bullseye, and thought I had set up my system incorrectly. I had disks mounted in my home directory for extra storage, but whenever I navigated to a directory in one of the mounted disks, the location bar would change to the disk size, e.g. "367.7 GiB Hard Drive". It's a horrible way to use a file browser, and I was quite pleased to be able to switch back to the previous version (having to click on '>' is *really* picky, but then I find that it's back to square one, as the location bar setting of "show full path" isn't saved between each use of Dolphin. I just want to use the previous UI style, as it was friendlier/easier, and predictable.

Comment 1 TraceyC 2024-05-15 22:57:27 UTC

I can confirm the behavior of the checkbox state not being preserved in Dolphin 24.02.2

Operating System: Solus 4.5
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.1.0
Qt Version: 6.6.3

Regarding the difficulty clicking the > breadcrumb, that would be a separate feature request. If you still find this to be the case, please open a new issue for it. See
https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Issue_Reporting#Multiple_issues_in_a_single_Bugzilla_ticket

Comment 2 Felix Ernst 2024-05-17 16:51:02 UTC

There is a setting in the Dolphin settings dialog that does the same thing and is saved between Dolphin restarts. However, I do agree that the full path checkbox in the context menu should also be saved between sessions.

To implement this, we probably need a new signal in the KIO::UrlNavigator class that let's everyone know that this checkbox was changed.

In Dolphin code, this signal can then be listened to and the change can be saved to the same place where it already saves to when this is changed from the Dolphin settings.