SUMMARY At the moment, the open/save file dialog keeps the settings for each application in a different location, making you to configure it over and over again for each application. Using a single location to store its settings regardless of the application will make it look the same in any application and you only need to configure it once the first time you run it. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220606 KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.94.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2
The current state is clearly intentional, and allows you to have different view settings for the dialog in every app. The question of course is how useful this is, at least for view settings. We would want to let every app remember the last-used location in its open and save dialog, probably.
I agree, this is a moot point. Is it possible to make the file dialog import the view settings from Dolphin the first time it is started?
It's mostly possible, but Dolphin and file file dialog have subtly different settings. For example the file dialog limits icon sizes to only the icon sized that KIconLoader provides, while Dolphin lets you choose a bunch of intermediate values. We could do a best guess, and at least have it inherit the basic view style (icons, compact, details), whether to show previews, etc.