The list of recent places in the files save_as menu doesn't contain recent places that are updated between instances. As an example: I open three files (say from another kde app, kmail) and I want to save them in "/home/fred/bloggs/saved_files/January" and I navigate to "/home/fred/bloggs/saved_files/January" in the first file and then I might, reasonably expect "/home/fred/bloggs/saved_files/January" to appear in the recent files list when I do this in the other instances but it doesn't. In order for this to happen I have to quit okular (to update the list) and start again. Furthermore, if I then quit another okular (that may have been running for months) this overwrites the list with old locations. To me the recent files list should contain recently used files as determined by the wall clock across all local instances of okular.
Can you attach a screenshot of your Save dialog? I want to make sure you're referring to what I think you're referring to.
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To be sure: I'm referring to the path that appears above the file list. If you click the path it becomes a text entry box with a pull down list of recent places. If you pull the recent places down it doesn't update between instances. I can't get a screenshot because the list hides when it loses focus.
you can get a screenshot by using Spectacle's timer with Full Screen or Rectangular Region mode. Set the delay to 2 seconds, click "take screenshot", then open the menu before it takes the screenshot.
Created attachment 118370 [details] dialog picture
Thanks!
OK. Step one, fixing the regression that limited that "path combo" at the top to 5 items (4 defaults + 1 useful). https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/90 I'll look at propagating updates next...
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/92
Git commit 5ae49645e211c37f1f104d2c9ba818bfe1d6d10c by David Faure. Committed on 14/08/2020 at 07:43. Pushed by dfaure into branch 'master'. KFileWidget: reparse config to grab dirs added by other instances of the app Can't use KConfigWatcher since KFileWidget is short-lived. Well it would have to be a Q_GLOBAL_STATIC, use memory and watch forever even if the user is no longer using the file dialog in this app, not sure the tradeoff is a good one. With the current solution, I measured that the reparseConfiguration call takes 4ms in kmail (very large app config file), seems acceptable. (Non-optimized Qt build, optimized KF5 build, SSD) M +1 -0 src/filewidgets/kfilewidget.cpp https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/commit/5ae49645e211c37f1f104d2c9ba818bfe1d6d10c