Bug 489817

Summary: WISH: Please add a way to save different tab sets
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: JPT <j-p-t>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde, kdedev, kfm-devel
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 24.05.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
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Description JPT 2024-07-06 08:42:52 UTC 
SUMMARY
I usually have a couple of dolphin windows open at a time. Each one showing a specific tab set, more or less static/unchanged.
I already asked in the forum, which told me to use bookmarks. This is a pain in the arse. It's just ridiculously complicated to use for my purpose. 
- you have to bookmark every tab using Ctrl-B, then move it into the folder you want it to be or save all tabs to a folder
- for opening you have to start dolphin. Close all unneeded tabs from some randomly saved tab set except one (Ctrl-W), load the folder of bookmarks then close the old tab left open

if you insist staying with bookmarks, please at least move the bookmarks menu to a separate top level menu. Or add bookmarks as a side panel?

Dolphin actually saves a single tab set for the next start, but it is totally unclear how to make this save the tab set I want it to save. I tried closing the most important tab set last, but it still opened another one.

ps. why did you change the "new folder" shortcut?

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux: 6.6.34-1-MANJARO
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5-1?
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.1

thank you very much
Comment 1 JPT 2024-07-07 11:14:41 UTC 
an easy solution could be to add a command line parameter to load bookmark or bookmark folder on dolphin start
Comment 2 TraceyC 2024-11-19 21:00:25 UTC 
This would be similar to how, in a browser, you can save a set of tabs to open at start
There's a different but related concept of sessions, like are available in Vivaldi natively or in Firefox via addons
Browsers also have the ability to bookmark a group of tabs with one operations

I agree that the current functionality of bookmarks is rather limited. Bookmark access doesn't even appear to be shown in the Dolphin UI by default

I can definitely see how opening a set of tabs (or more than one set) would be very useful to various workflows