SUMMARY When "View" -> "Show Additional Information" -> "Size" is enabled, Dolphin used to display number of elements in given directory. It doesn't do that anymore. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Enable "View" -> "Show Additional Information" -> "Size" 2. Look at information under any directory OBSERVED RESULT Size of directory is not displayed EXPECTED RESULT Either number of elements should be displayed under directories or new option for it should be added to "Show Additional Information" menu. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 5.19 KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.73.0 Qt Version: 5.15.0 Kernel Version: 5.4.0-47-generic OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz Memory: 7.7 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2
I see a slightly different bug: it shows the actual calculated size rather than the number of items. ...which is actually what I would want and expect, but I know that it's not the intention of the code. Calculating explicit sizes is supposed to be working only for compact view columns. I guess it's nice that it works everywhere, but this means that the toggle for what definition of "size" to use doesn't work for this view.
What would be desired outcome? Should calculating actual size for every view be an option? What about showing number or elements?
It's supposed to be something you can toggle between: one or the other.
Created attachment 132076 [details] Elements Size
I imagine it could be something like this. Remaining questions are: 1. Should there be an option to show file sizes but no directory sizes? 2. Should option for number of elements be under "Additional Information" as it is on the screencap or should there be a new category for directories?
(In reply to Marcin Gurtowski from comment #5) > I imagine it could be something like this. > > Remaining questions are: > 1. Should there be an option to show file sizes but no directory sizes? It exists: Configure > view modes > details setting > Folder size displays > 2. Should option for number of elements be under "Additional Information" as > it is on the screencap or should there be a new category for directories? Maybe like in the screenshot, but it is not a straightforward change.
(In reply to Méven Car from comment #6) It turns out this bug is actually duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428712, but because my starting directory is a symlink, I thought it affects all directories. With radio options between number of files and calculated size under detailed settings, I don't think there's anything else to do here.
Indeed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 428712 ***