[dolphin] [Bug 158934] Media ejecting fails to update the location bar

[Elvis Angelaccio]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158934

Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio at kde.org> changed:

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--- Comment #21 from Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio at kde.org> ---
(In reply to Riccardo Robecchi from comment #19)
> 
> I honestly don't find this an improvement - if anything, I find this a
> regression. It has happened to me that a disk was unmounted without me
> noticing (e.g. because of an issue with the cable I was using). Having an
> error message was actually useful to realise that something was not working.
> If you redirect users to the /home folder, there's no indication that the
> position they were in is not available anymore;

I'm not sure what is the problem here honestly.
You will realize that the disk is not available anymore the next time you try
to read from or write to it, no?

> plus, the user does not
> reasonably expect to see the /home folder after a device or folder has been
> unmounted.

That's standard behavior in other filemanagers. Windows even close the whole
file explorer window IIRC.

> There is also a peculiar, but nonetheless valid, use case in not being moved
> away from the folder: if you need to unmount a device and then remount it,
> it is rather useful to not have to navigate a possibly intricate tree of
> folders again. With the current behaviour you can just update the view; with
> the new one, you have to navigate again to the desired position.
> I know this is a bit like XKCD's famous "I press the space bar to heat my
> room" thing

Kind of, yes :) Why not add this frequently accessed path to a place/bookmark?

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