Bug 455017

Summary: Use a single location to store open/save file dialog settings
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio Reporter: popov895 <popov895>
Component: Open/save dialogsAssignee: KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: kdelibs-bugs-null, nate, popov895
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: 5.94.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description popov895 2022-06-08 08:56:59 UTC 
SUMMARY

At the moment, the open/save file dialog keeps the settings for each application in a different location, making you to configure it over and over again for each application. Using a single location to store its settings regardless of the application will make it look the same in any application and you only need to configure it once the first time you run it.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220606
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.94.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-06-08 19:14:37 UTC 
The current state is clearly intentional, and allows you to have different view settings for the dialog in every app.

The question of course is how useful this is, at least for view settings. We would want to let every app remember the last-used location in its open and save dialog, probably.
Comment 2 popov895 2022-06-08 21:39:40 UTC 
I agree, this is a moot point.

Is it possible to make the file dialog import the view settings from Dolphin the first time it is started?
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-06-09 15:41:06 UTC 
It's mostly possible, but Dolphin and file file dialog have subtly different settings. For example the file dialog limits icon sizes to only the icon sized that KIconLoader provides, while Dolphin lets you choose a bunch of intermediate values. We could do a best guess, and at least have it inherit the basic view style (icons, compact, details), whether to show previews, etc.