Since upgraded to 4.8, Dolphin no longer arranges media files in a playlist, to be opened in a single instance of a program. For example, if you select 15 mp3s and press enter, it will open 15 Totem windows - all of them frozen - instead of a window with the 15 files queued. If, however, you select the same files, right-click and select "open with -> totem", it works as expected. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Dolphin 2. Select multiple .mp3, .avi, .jpg 3. Press Enter Actual Results: A flood of nonresponsive new windows. Expected Results: A single window with the selected files queued. It seems to be a regression, since this exact behaviour figured in 4.4 and was fixed in 4.6, if I recall correctly. And seems somewhat similar to bug 265747, in which I have already commented, but as the similarities I've noticed are described in Peter Penz's response and not in the report itself, I'm filing a new report due to being unsure. My apologies if I am indeed duplicating.
Created attachment 72838 [details] screenshot of the result
(In reply to comment #2) > For example, if you select > 15 mp3s and press enter, it will open 15 Totem windows - all of them frozen > - instead of a window with the 15 files queued. If, however, you select the > same files, right-click and select "open with -> totem", it works as > expected. Reproduciable in KDE SC 4.9.0 . totem.desktop contains "Exec=totem %U", so it supports muitiple arguments. It is strange that kind of problem does not exist when trying .txt files and gedit (which uses Exec=gedit %U)
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
*** Bug 309165 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Review-Request: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/107305/
Some infos just FTR: Using the Open With context menu works fine in all cases I tested. Select multiple JPEGs, choose Open With Gwenview, one Gwenview instance opens, displaying the selected files. Pressing Enter instead, opens four Gwenview instances all showing a single image. Other filetypes: 4 JPEG files: Enter =4x Gwenview, Open With = 1x Gwenview with virtual folder 4 PDFs: Enter = 4x Okular, Open With = 4x Okular 4 MP3s: Enter = 4x VLC player, Open With = 1x VLC with playlist 4 TXT files: Enter = 1x (!) Kate, Open With = 1x Kate Here also same with text files, they open once in Kate
Git commit e45a847d48e3b9e039f5657b696366aa7460cd6d by Emmanuel Pescosta. Committed on 13/12/2012 at 22:54. Pushed by emmanuelp into branch 'master'. Fix Bug 304299 - Dolphin launches multiple instances of a program when multiple files are selected REVIEW: 107305 M +9 -0 dolphin/src/dolphinpart.cpp M +4 -0 dolphin/src/dolphinpart.h M +10 -0 dolphin/src/dolphinviewcontainer.cpp M +6 -0 dolphin/src/dolphinviewcontainer.h M +18 -13 dolphin/src/views/dolphinview.cpp M +6 -0 dolphin/src/views/dolphinview.h http://commits.kde.org/kde-baseapps/e45a847d48e3b9e039f5657b696366aa7460cd6d
Will this be backported for KDE 4.9.5? Please set the Version-Fixed-In field.
It changes the behaviour, and it changes quite a bit of code. I think it's unlikely that there will be any problems, but I feel more comfortable if it gets some additional testing in the RCs.
*** Bug 160827 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 326642 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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