SUMMARY Dolphin has strange behaviors after some related settings been changed for the first time. That includes the sudden disappearances of certain UI elements like the sidebar and status bar (which I did not disable); Sorting preference per folder cannot be remembered (related settings untouched) and etc,. I have been reinstalling Manjaro 17.1.12 KDE for dozens of times this 6 months. This issue happens every time on a newly installed system, after a few minor tweaks to Dolphin and Desktop behaviors. It happened when the tweaks had been made regardless of before/after a first time full system update. Workaround: Delete: ~/.config/dolphinrc Once this has been done for once, it will never happen again through out the life of that system. Therefore I suspect some kind of configuration file corruption. I will attach a copy of the problematic dolphinrc on the second comment. ############ RELATED SETTINGS I TOUCHED FOR DOLPHIN ### Double click to open an item: >> System Settings >> Workspace (section) >> Desktop Behavior >> Left column >> Workspace >> Click Behaviour [X] Double-click to open files and folders ### Turn off folder thumbnails Dolphin >> Control >> Configure Dolphin >> General >> Previews (tab) List: [ ] Folders ### Hide Sidebar Sections Right-click over "section name" >> Hide Section "section name" ### Disable Selection Marker >> Dolphin >> Control >> Configure Dolphin >> General >> Behavior (tab) Miscellaneous: [ ] Show selection marker ### Sorting preference per folder >> Dolphin >> Toolbar >> Control >> Sort By >> [X] Modified [X] Descending This is usually when I discover Dolphin has a problem. Every time Dolphin is restarted, the sorting preference per folder was either reset or scrambled. One more possible related thing: the scrambled sorting syndrome bleeds into Gwenview in some cases. Although not this time when I reported this bug.
Created attachment 115745 [details] dolphinrc when someting wrong happened
Note: this copy of dophinrc only has sorting preference per folder issue. I do not have a copy of the one with UI element issue. It was months ago. It happened twice to me.
> Workaround: > Delete: > ~/.config/dolphinrc > > Once this has been done for once, it will never happen again through out the life of that system. Is there already a ~/.config/dolphinrc present on a new Manjaro install *before* you open Dolphin for the first time?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3) > Is there already a ~/.config/dolphinrc present on a new Manjaro install > *before* you open Dolphin for the first time? No, there is no dolphinrc. I've checked ~/.config with Yakuake without touching anything, both in LiveUSB and the installed system. Strangely enough though -- it somehow has a gwenviewrc but I'm sure I never opened Gwenview. For better investigation, I will attach the content in my ~/.config folders from Manjaro 17.1.12 LiveUSB and the installed system below.
Created attachment 115764 [details] ~/.config folder from Manjaro 17.1.12 KDE LiveUSB Retrieved from command line via Yakuake, right after it boot into LiveUSB. Nothing else was touched. Not even the notifications.
Created attachment 115765 [details] ~/.config folder from a freshly installed Manjaro 17.1.12 KDE system Retrieved from command line via Yakuake, right after the system is installed. Nothing else was touched. Not even the notifications.
Huh, how strange. Thanks for the info.