Konqueror/Dolphin "Expandable Folders" feature not persistent

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

Binary package hint: dolphin-kde4

PROBLEM:

Konqueror and Dolphin have a feature called "Expandable Folders". You can enable it for a particular Konqueror/Dolphin session, but that setting does not persist for any sessions opened afterwards. This problem existed in the KDE4 packages for Hardy and still exists in KDE4 in Intrepid.

TO REPRODUCE:

In Konqueror, switch to the Details view mode. Go to the Settings menu, then Configure Konqueror. In the sidebar in the next window, expand File Management and click on Views. On the Details tab, there is an option called Expandable Folders. Enable it and click OK. The feature will be enabled for that Konqueror window and any others in the same session (e.g. other windows opened via Ctrl+N).

Launch a totally separate Konqueror session. Expandable Folders are not enabled.

Dolphin behaves like this as well (I believe they both use the same Kpart for file browsing).

EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR:

If I enable Expandable Folders, it should persist for all sessions of Konqueror and Dolphin.

[Ignacio Vicario (ignaciovicario-ya)]

The same problem here.

[eternicode (knexor2)]

Same here.

[m.eik michalke (m.eik)]

i ran into the same problem. until it's solved, this manual workaround should do the trick -- edit your ~/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc and append:

[DetailsMode]
ExpandableFolders=true

restart konqueror, and enjoy the surprise that it obviously interprets dolphin's settings as well...

[Ignacio Vicario (ignaciovicario-ya)]

This works for me. Thanks a lot!

[Terence Simpson (tsimpson)]

Seems fixed in 4.2