Version: (using Devel) OS: Linux Installed from: Compiled sources If the filter bar is activated clicking on "Tools -> Show Filter Bar", this setting is forgotten when Dolphin is closed and started again. Expected behavior: "FilterBar=true" should be written to the [General] section of dolphinrc. If I do that change by hand, the filter bar will show up when I launch Dolphin. Vice versa after adding FilterBar=true to dolphinrc, I can't deactive it with "Tools -> Show Filter Bar" again.
This is done on purpose currently. You can configure whether the filterbar should be shown in general by Configure Dolphin... -> Startup -> [x] Show filter bar. Is this sufficient for you?
Personally speaking: Yes. :) I really didn't see it, because after I found "Tools"->"Show Filter Bar" I didn't search any further. Generally speaking: I find it a bit confusing. If you set the hook for example at "View"->"Panels"->"Terminal" the setting is applied immediately and is persistent. If you set the hook at "Tools"->"Show Filter Bar" the setting is applied immediately but is not persistent. And if you set the hook at "Configure Dolphin" -> "Start up" -> "Show filter bar" the setting is not applied immediately, but gets activated upon the next start of Dolphin and is persistent. Before I filed this bug report I actually asked a KDE developer and others on IRC (in #opensuse-kde) to confirm this bug on trunk and nobody got the idea that to make the "Show filter bar" setting permenant you have to set another hook than "Tools"->"Show Filter Bar". Feel free to close this bug as RESOLVED->INVALID, since my bug report seems to complain about intended behavior. Or you could set it to WISHLIST priority, so maybe some day somebody might make the UI design less confusing regarding the "Show filter bar" setting. Thanks for your time.
Initially when writing Dolphin I was strongly for the "when you open Dolphin it looks exactly like when you closed it"-approach. But I got some bad response because of this especially because of the home URL and the breadcrumb/editable-mode of the location bar. So I've moved these kind of options into the "Startup"-settings and it seems most people are fine with that. However when comparing it with Firefox they recently added an option "After Starting Firefox: Show last session". I think this would also be helpful for Dolphin... It does not have a high priority at the moment and cannot be done for KDE 4.4, but I hope for 4.5 I can add this. I've confirmed this issue as wish.
I don't mind the "Dolphin forgets what was done except if you change something in the settings" approach. It just isn't consistent if some settings like "View"->"Panels"->"Terminal" are persistent, while others are not. But of course, this is really just a minor issue. So wishlist for 4.5 seems fair. :)
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Can anyone reproduce this? I cannot with Dolphin 19.08.
I can reproduce this with Dolphin 19.11.70 - when I activate the Filter Bar and reopen Dolphin, it is closed again. I am not sure how much of a bug this is though - it really is more of a UX thing that it isn't intuitive that you need to change another setting to make it permanent.
Ah, then in that case this will actually be fixed by https://phabricator.kde.org/D11382.
Re-titling since the filter is in fact already optionally remembered. The request here is for it to be automatically remembered like the terminal panel is.