Making konqueror remember sort order per directory

[Eugene Nine]

On Saturday 06 January 2007 18:45, Staffan Hamala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of the few things in Gnome that I miss in KDE is the ability for
> konqueror to remember the sort order per directory.
>
> This shouldn't be very hard to fix, should it?
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction, and I'll see if I might be
> able to make a patch that fixes this.
>
> I've been thinking that it would be possible to add a field in the
> .directory file that is created when "Save view changes per folder" is
> selected. Currently, it only seems to save the view type (i.e. icon view,
> detailed list view, etc).
> An example .directory file can look like this:
> [URL properties]
> ViewMode=konq_detailedlistview
>
> What about adding a SortMode=[Name, Size, Modified, Accessed]?
>
> Has anyone else been thinking about this?
>
> --S

I've wanted to do this myself.  
I found the column info is stored in .kde/share/config/konquerorrc so I think 
the best and easiest solution would be to call the subroutine that handels 
the column sizes when the konquerorrc is read whenever the .directory is 
read. 
In the rc its listed like this:
[ListView_file]
ColumnWidths=68,75,100,79
Columns=Modified,Size,File Type,Link,Owner,Permissions,Group
FileNameColumnWidth=287

so my thought was to put the same format in the .directory so you could save 
the widths for each view in each directory in exactly the same way as you can 
globally in the rc.
so it should be a real simple thing to just call the same routine after 
the .directory is read since the setting format will be the same.