Bug 496448

Summary:	List View doesn't get retained, defaults back to icons
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	targontech
Component:	view-engine: details mode	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	akselmo, flaviannxmbo, kdedev, kfm-devel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description targontech 2024-11-19 06:48:16 UTC

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SUMMARY
24.08-4707 to release-24.12 refuses to remember List View, every folder I open goes back to icon.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Select a partition, set the view to List - Control + 3
2. Configure, Change Display Style to 'Use common' it changes from list back to icon.
3. Run control + 3 again, sets to list but then going back to the folder changes back to icon

OBSERVED RESULT


EXPECTED RESULT
If I set List view at the root of a partition/volume I expect every folder recursively to be also list view, NEVER icon and never any other view and less i specify it.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: Windows 11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Please fix ASAP! List view with expandable folders is the SOLE reason to use this file manager on Windows, since nothing else on this shitty platform has a file manager with a list view like macOS Finder!!!

I'd even pay to a bounty to get a developer to fix up all the non function problems with this file manager, like 
1- can't drag a pdf from Dolphin to an outlook email for attaching, can't drag a png image to a a teams message
2- can't hit space bar to preview files like macOS quicklook
3- can't see the triangle (chevron) on expanded folders in list view
4- Split doesn't maintain individual tabs for each pane, close a tab in a pane closes the pane etc

File managers are arguably the single most important and used part of the OS, yet very little development resources are seemingly applied to them.

Comment 1 Akseli Lahtinen 2024-11-22 11:07:42 UTC

Can't reproduce this on Linux, might be Windows issue

Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
Kernel Version: 6.11.8-300.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
Memory: 15,5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600

Comment 2 Cavalier0491 2025-09-17 09:09:21 UTC

Hi,
Sorry in advance, I'm not sure if this is the same issue or a different one.
if i enable "remember display style for each folder", with the default being, let's say, Details.
0. Set Icons, Set Details (to make sure it's set to Details.)
1. Go to a subfolder, change it to Icons.
2. Go back up, it's still Icons, even though it should be Details.

It only remembers that the top folder has Details and subfolder has Icons, once I restart dolphin.
Then it works fine for that folder pair.
Sorry If i haven't described this in the best way.