SUMMARY When I create a new folder view, there is no way to name the view. In earlier versions you could name the view and that name would appear centered at the top of the view. Now you see the path to the directory under the home directory. All folder views that already exist still retain their names as descriipbd above, but if I open the config for one of those and save, the name is replaced with the path. Still no way to name the folder view. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Add folder view widget 2. Note that when selecting a custom location that there is no way to name the view. 3. When applying, the path is displayed at the top. What make it even worse, there is no way to see the entire path, so the legend is useless. OBSERVED RESULT No way to name folder view EXPECTED RESULT I should be able to ener a name to describe the folder view. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 40 KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.30 Qt Version: 6.7.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Kernel version 6.9.8-200.fc40 AMD Ryzen 9 5950x 16 core AMD Radeon RX 550
How exactly were you able to name a Folder View widget in the past? I'm not recalling that we ever hard this feature. At least, not to my knowledge in the past 7 years.
Created attachment 172037 [details] folderview dialog location panel This is a screenshot from a Fedora 31 KVM inage, which I keep to allow me to test docker images with docker. Note that there is a title field. In that dropdown is "Custom title". Selecting that allows you to enter text. That text then appears centered at the top of the folder view.
Created attachment 172038 [details] Foldereview location panel Fedora 40 Note that there is no Title: dropdown. What is interesting is that if I don't edit a folder view, the title I entered in an earlier version of Fedora, I assume with KDE 5, is still displayed in the folder view. I suppose I could edit a new folder views .desktop file and duplicate what I see in an older flder view, but I consider it a bug that I am not able to name a folderview. I have multiple folder views on my desktop as I have dolphin kio instances that open a file manager on remote systems and the title tells me the colocation or customer name.
Created attachment 172039 [details] old and new folder views You can see in the third screen shot the difference. I am virtually never insterested in the path to the folder view.
I did find that I can set the title text in a folderview. labelMode=3 labelText=AISO In the file ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc, adding the above lines to the folderview item, then logging out then in, the flder view now has the expected title. OK, so this is a work around for a badly, in my opinion, needed feature that is missing in KDE 6.
Aha! Can confirm the issue. The feature exists, but has gotten hidden due to a conditional in the code inappropriately evaluating to false.
Specifically, this line: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/blob/master/containments/desktop/package/contents/ui/ConfigLocation.qml?ref_type=heads#L22 I assume `plasmoid` needs to be changed to something else, but what? I tried capital P Plasmoid but that didn't work as expected.
I wish I could help :-)
Marco Knew! Fixed by him with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/commit/522ab0b91c5776c6cde72d2e0cb8df455496358a in Plasma 6.1.4.