Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin only allowing a single instance after update

[Franz Fellner]

You might want to have a play with kbuildsycoca5 after editing .desktop
files.
Look at the options (--help I think, or --help-all), I can't help with that
ATM.
It should rebuild the system config cache - reparse the .desktop files.

Good luck
Franz

Am Fr., 23. Aug. 2019 um 12:49 Uhr schrieb Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>:

> Mick wrote:
> > On Friday, 23 August 2019 05:56:07 BST Dale wrote:
> >>   It seems it is hardcoded to do this at the moment.
> >> This seriously makes me want to start using another file manager.  I
> >> don't mind someone testing new features but at the very least, have it
> >> where it can be disabled for those who do not want it or are set up not
> >> to need it.
> > You're missing the point!  As soon as something works as most users
> want, or
> > becoming used to at any rate, the KDE devs will <aheam!> /improve/ their
> > software by breaking its most desired functionality - sometimes
> irrepairably.
> > LOL!
> >
> > Konqueror was the best file manager ever, with multiple vertical and
> > horizontal window split, with kio-slaves which would process or play
> anything
> > and everything you threw at it, with browser integration, ftp/s and
> sftp/fish,
> > etc.  Nope, evidently konqueror wasn't good enough, so here comes
> dolphin
> > which can't do half of what konqueror was able to offer us.  I better
> not
> > mention kmail2, because I don't want anyone to think this message was
> written
> > by Edgar Allan Poe.  :-(
> >
>
>
> I hear you very clearly.  I had my desktop set up just like I needed it
> so that I didn't have to spend time navigating to things.  Bad thing is,
> by the time I figured out it was clobbering already running instances, I
> had closed some tabs/windows and lost my place.  On a couple of them,
> there is no way for me to know where I left off.  When I stop editing
> pictures or videos for example, I always highlight or select the last
> one I did.  If I'm going to logout or something, I write all that info
> down so I know where I left off.  When a tab gets closed and I don't
> write it down, no clue where I was at.  It's one reason I had to wait a
> bit to logout and back in to test that patch.  I had to get to a
> stopping place and not be downloading anything either.  It takes time to
> get to that spot.  This new feature really messed me up.  If they going
> to release some change like this, they should warn people about it.
> Sort of like Gentoo's news item or something and already have a way to
> do it the old way.
>
> I remember Konqueror. It's still around I think but a lot of things are
> broken or removed last I looked.  Thing is, you could do a LOT of things
> with that one tool.  Need to copy from another system, no problem.  Need
> it done securely, still not a problem.  Need a plain file manager, no
> problem.  That thing was powerful to say the least.  Honestly, I still
> miss the thing.  I really liked running it as root as a file manager.  I
> never used it to access the internet as root but as a file manager, it
> was awesome.  Dolphin started to stink so much, I switched to Krusader.
>
> Yea, those were the days.  lol
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>