SUMMARY activating previews in the file dialog isn't remembered across instances, even setting previews to true in kdeglobals file gets rewritten when the file dialog is opened again STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. open a file dialog instance 2. activate previews 3. close the file dialog and open another one OBSERVED RESULT preview settings is always set to false regardless of user configuration EXPECTED RESULT preview settings are remembered across instances SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.60 Qt Version: 5.13.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION setting icon/detail/compact view works setting bookmarks works setting icon size works setting preview panel works setting sort order works
i managed to fix it, turns out kdeglobals's file dialog section was corrupted, I recreated the file and checked that it worked, it probably was a legacy option that messed up the parsing, anyhow next are the two version of the section, if someone stumbles upon this bug you have to delete the section and it will be recreated automatically with a correct configuration. produces bug [KFileDialog Settings] Allow Expansion=true Automatically select filename extension=true Breadcrumb Navigation=true Decoration position=2 LocationCombo Completionmode=5 PathCombo Completionmode=5 Preview Width=235 Show Bookmarks=false Show Full Path=false Show Inline Previews=false Show Preview=false Show Speedbar=true Show hidden files=false Sort by=Date Sort directories first=true Sort reversed=true Speedbar Width=156 View Style=Simple listViewIconSize=72 correct configuration [KFileDialog Settings] Allow Expansion=false Automatically select filename extension=true Breadcrumb Navigation=true Decoration position=2 LocationCombo Completionmode=5 PathCombo Completionmode=5 Show Bookmarks=false Show Full Path=false Show Inline Previews=true Show Preview=false Show Speedbar=true Show hidden files=false Sort by=Date Sort directories first=true Sort reversed=true Speedbar Width=152 View Style=Simple