Picking a folder icon works, but upon confirming and closing, the icon does NOT display. However, a correct .directory file is written to the directory in question Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. select folder->properties 2. select icon->ok (icon displayed in properties dialog) 3. close the properties dialog Actual Results: Default folder icon is shown Expected Results: Custom folder icon is shown Changing to the directory and viewing hidden files shows the .directory file with the correct icon displayed. This is on dolphin-git, checked out just now. Rest of the system is running the latest plasma 5.3 packages from kde-unstable.
I can confirm this here with Frameworks 5.9.0, Plasma 5.3 beta, and the latest dolphin git version (from 17 hours ago...). Btw, the same issue exists in KF5's file open/save dialog. I.e. it doesn't show the custom icon for the folder either, but the default icon. But it shows the .directory file with the custom icon when entering the folder. So this is probably not a dolphin specific problem.
Thanks for the analysis. It's probably a KIO issue.
Not that I think about it, the issue reminds me of how dolphin (or, kio, I guess) behaves with "slow" filesystems a la smb - not displaying the custom icon.
Err, typo. "now that I think about it".
I just discovered a more recent bug report about the same issue, which has a proposed fix. https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/124690/ *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 350612 ***