Bug 513271

Summary:	inverted default sorting order
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	fillman86
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	dolphin-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	EndeavourOS
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description fillman86 2025-12-12 23:49:30 UTC

SUMMARY
The default sorting order is "oldest" or anti-alphabetical order first, which is not how most humans would use sorting orders. I often will change the sorting type in dolphin, in the same directory, if I want to visualise folders in a different way. Every time it goes in the wrong direction, there's no setting anywhere, and it's also not able to be key-bound. Because this "locked in" style of setting is antithetical to linux's ethos, and that this has been reported many times before, I'm setting it as a bug, because I doubt it's deliberately this way by a malicious actor. (I have it set to remember settings per folder, but that's unrelated to this issue)

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. open dolphin
2. change sort order
-optional
3. attempt to change default behaviour
-optional #2
3. attempt to set shortcut
-optional #3
3. set "save sorting order" in configure (missing)

OBSERVED RESULT
defaults to "oldest", which is illogical.

EXPECTED RESULT
"sort order" be a logical order upon change, because people go to files in directories to keep working on things, not to see things that are probably finished a long time ago.

Operating System: EndeavourOS 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.17.9-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dolphin Version 25.08.3
I'm salty after a year of this, so I'm sorry if I mixed salt into this bug report