Bug 503045

Summary:	Dolphin "Show on startup" = "Folders, tabs, and window state from last time" is no longer working
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	shamim.islam <shamim.islam>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	kfm-devel, marcec
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	24.12.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description shamim.islam@gmail.com 2025-04-20 06:42:32 UTC

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SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set Dolphin to  "Show on startup" =  "Folders, tabs, and window state from last time"
2. Open tabs and folders and different folders and sub-folders and sort order in different tabs
3. Close Dolphin
4. Re-open dolphin

OBSERVED RESULT
All tabs, sort, folders and subfolders are are closed and only 1 tab is present with the default sort and a folder - unclear where the folder is coming from.

EXPECTED RESULT
All tabs, folders, window state and sort order would be restored (including scroll position)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.13.8-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4720HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Intel® HD Graphics 4600


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Cannot install version 25.04.1 - need a backport to Fedora 41.

Comment 1 Marc Joliet 2025-04-20 21:23:23 UTC

I'm seeing this, too, on OpenSuse Tumbleweed after it upgraded to Frameworks 6.13.0, with Dolphin 24.12.3 *and* after it was upgraded to 25.04.0.  (FWIW, a bug with this symptom hit me before a year or two ago.)

I'm not sure what it means exactly, but diffing the current session file with an older version from a snapshot shows the following (with personal info removed):

-Active Tab Index=2
-Tab Count=19
-Tab Data 0=[...]
-Tab Data 1=[...]
+Active Tab Index=0
+Tab Count=1
+Tab Data 0=[...]
+Tab Data 1=[...]
["Tab Data" for the rest of my tabs]

So it doesn't remove any Tab Data entries.  Interestingly, even though the session file is saved to, it doesn't seem to be loaded when I start Dolphin again; it always starts in the home directory as one unsplit tab.  I.e., the file is written to, but apparently not read/processed correctly.

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250418
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.2-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: Z97P-D3

Comment 2 Antonio Rojas 2025-04-20 21:25:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 502770 ***