Trying to control Konq profile

[James Kerr]

On Tuesday 19 August 2008, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 August 2008 09:08, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 18 August 2008 23:06:37 D. R. Evans wrote:
> > > Nigel Henry said the following at 08/18/2008 03:42 PM :
> > > > By contrast, if I open konqueror, the webbrowser, and upon opening
> > > > it, and without having to enter about:konqueror in the address bar,
> > > > I still have a bunch of icons showing, including the little house
> > > > representing "Home". Click on home, and get the icon view. Now I
> > > > click on view, select tree view, which changes to tree view. Now
> > > > click on settings, then Save View Profile "Web Browsing", then
> > > > change the Profile Management window so that File Management shows
> > > > in the top box, click on save, close konqueror webbrowser, then
> > > > reopen it, click on the home icon, and I'm back to the icon view.
> > > > for some reason saving the tree view hasn't been saved.
> > >
> > > Yup; that's what I can't do: get the treeview to stick when I click
> > > the little house.
> > >
> > > All along I've been thinking this was my stupidity, but maybe this is
> > > a really weird bug. (One problem is that none of the Konq
> > > documentation I've been able to find has been sufficiently clear for
> > > me to distinguish between those two alternatives.)
> >
> > I can't understand why it works here but not for either of you.
> >
> > Anne
>
> Hi Anne. It looks like it may be a distro specific thing for some strange
> reason.
>
> I tried it on my Archlinux, and F8 installs. Open Konqueror webbrowser,
> change view to treeview, and save. Open Konqueror file browser, and tree
> view shows ok. Close Konqueror webbrowser, then reopen it, click on the
> "House", treeview still shows, which is what Doc is looking for.
>
> By contrast on F9, Kubuntu GG 7.10, and Kubuntu HH 8.04, I see this.
>
> Open Konqueror webbrowser, click on "House", change view to treeview, and
> save. Open Konqueror filebrowser, and tree view is displayed. Close both.
> Open Konqueror webbrowser, click on "House", and icon view is displayed.
> Open Konqueror filebrowser, and treeview is still there.
>
> So at least on F9, and both Kubuntu's, the change IS being saved, which
> is confirmed by Konqueror filebrowser continuing to display the tree
> view, but for some reason Konqueror the webbrowser when reopened, and
> clicking on the "House", has gone back to displaying the icon view.
>
> Webbrowser displaying filebrowser:             icon view displayed
> Filebrowser                                          tree view displayed
>
> Very weird.
>

Have you tried experimenting with Settings / Save View changes per folder?

Jim
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