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The way Dolphin sorts (or doesn't) files is killing me. My preferences are set to sort files by name. Every time I open a new directory files are sorted by created date. So I click sort alphabetically. The default for that is Z-A for some reason so again another click to sort by A-Z. Any decent alternatives to this thing?
I'm not running Plasma5 yet, but I'd be really surprised if that sort is hard coded with no option to change the default.
I looked on my 14.2 install of KDE4 and under View -> Adjust View Properties, there's an option to set the default sorting. I realize the text may have changed between KDE4 and Plasma5, but you might have something similar.
It could also be a glitch in your profile. Have you tried creating a new user to see if it happens with them? If it doesn't, you could try the orbital nuke by removing/renaming the Plasma5 equivalent of the ~/.kde folder (maybe that's what it's still called) or you could try and find dolphin's specific settings file(s) and remove/rename those and see if it fixes it.
then restart dolphin & customize your view settings
No need, I posted above an option that works for me which is probably an alternative what you do.
~/.local/share/dolphin/view_properties
this is just an empty folder
Quote:
la ~/.local/share/dolphin/view_properties/global/
. .. .directory
No need, I posted above an option that works for me which is probably an alternative what you do.
~/.local/share/dolphin/view_properties
this is just an empty folder
Your original post was : "nope, does not work"
I'm not supposed to know the content of a message edited 10min later :-)
Distribution: VM Host: Slackware-current, VM Guests: Artix, Venom, antiX, Gentoo, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenIndiana
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Originally Posted by marav
Your original post was : "nope, does not work"
I'm not supposed to know the content of a message edited 10min later :-)
1) you did post your solution
2) I tried your method did not work but I found another way of sorting in Dolphin
3) you did post your solution more in depth info about your solution
Sort is working fine for me. I am using "Configure Dolphin", "General", "Sorting mode", "Alphabetical, case sensitive" and "View", "Adjust View Display Style", "Sorting: Ascending Name" "Show folders first".
kde/kcoreaddons-5.79.0-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Use inotify, not gamin. This should improve performance and fix a few random
deadlocks. Thanks to Heinz Wiesinger.
I ended up ditching Slackware as a desktop because of how buggy KDE was and the inability to run software that wasn't specifically compiled for Slackware. The final straw was cutting and pasting files in dolphin. After the file was moved it would pop up an error saying the file couldn't be found at the original location. No kidding that's because it was moved! Then the ghost files would still be shown in their original locations until KDE was restarted.
I can't use Slackware on my media player box anymore either because a service that I pay for (Sling) no longer works in Chrome. I suspect it's over something in ffmpeg but I'm not a computer science major. Sling works fine in every other distro (Ubuntu, Mint, OpenSUSE).
I ended up ditching Slackware as a desktop because of how buggy KDE was and the inability to run software that wasn't specifically compiled for Slackware. The final straw was cutting and pasting files in dolphin. After the file was moved it would pop up an error saying the file couldn't be found at the original location. No kidding that's because it was moved! Then the ghost files would still be shown in their original locations until KDE was restarted.
I can't use Slackware on my media player box anymore either because a service that I pay for (Sling) no longer works in Chrome. I suspect it's over something in ffmpeg but I'm not a computer science major. Sling works fine in every other distro (Ubuntu, Mint, OpenSUSE).
I have to assume you were running 14.2? If thats the case, it is a KDE4 issue, and unfortunately Slackware was late to the party in ditching it for Plasma5 - if however you are having this issue on --Current; well again then it is a work-in-progress i.e. not stable.
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