Bug 515769

Summary:	KFileDialog will not remember my sorting preferences any more (Regression)
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	dag
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description dag 2026-02-09 14:09:56 UTC

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SUMMARY
In previous KDE applications the KFileDialog very conveniently remembered both sorting column and sorting order for the files. Now it seems to revert to some kind of "standard" order every time it is re-opened.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Do an operation that opens a file (an attachmetn to an email is a good candidate)
2. Change the sorting to Descending date
3. Select a file and press Add attachment again.

OBSERVED RESULT
The sort order is not what you selected at the previous file select

EXPECTED RESULT
Preserve the sort order and sort column - At least inside the same application. Preferrably make it possible to select defaults.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: FC42 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.9.3

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This worked very nicely earlier - Please do improvements, but do not destroy old long tweaked and thought out convenient behaviour when improving.

Comment 1 dag 2026-02-09 15:56:10 UTC

Additional comment:
It seems like the behaviour just have changed. Found the sorting icon in the dialog and what you select there seems to stick betweek invocations as it should. Yippee.
I had only been changing the order by double clicking on the header - Which also changed the default earlier. I am fine with the new behaviour, the change just surprised me! My bad.