https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443168
--- Comment #27 from Oded Arbel <o...@geek.co.il> --- (In reply to Robin Bankhead from comment #26) > Based on Andrew's initial post it seems clear that Gwenview knows nothing of > .directory files, not even through Dolphin: It simply copies Dolphin's > *global* sort setting. That is incorrect: Gwenview follows Dolphin's per-directory sort setting, which is stored in `.directory` files under the section name `[Dolphin]`. You can see that by having two folders with images, then using Dolphin - set each to different sorting (lets say, one by date and one by name), then launch Gwenview with first the one folder as the argument to gwenview, then the other - you'd see that Gwenview tracks the per-directory sort mode set by Dolphin. You can also run gwenview under strace and see that it reads the `.directory` file in the folder where you've opened it to (with either a folder argument or a file argument). There's no additional communications between Dolphin and Gwenview. > Any solution to this particular bug needs to address how Gwenview behaves > when there are no .directory files involved. That is only workable if you also remove Gwenview's feature to read `.directory` files. I'm personally OK with that, but I'm guessing that feature exists for a reason. > 2) Dolphin should invoke Gwenview with the switches to mirror its own > sort-mode, or not, as a configuration option (which option is the default: > TBD) I believe that is a non-starter: Dolphin does not integrate with Gwenview - doing any kind of deep integration with Gwenview (knowing about specific arguments needed to launch specifically Gwenview) goes in direct contrast to how a modular and generic system should work. If someone wants to implement another image viewer that can compete with Gwenview on features - including tracking the sorting order in file managers, now they can't do that. I don't think KDE devs would go for that and I don't think they should. > Alternatively, if it's considered undesirable for the two apps to be > codependent in this way for the sake of this one feature, let Gwenview > ignore Dolphin entirely. I'm willing to put up the MR to remove Gwenview's `.directory` parsing feature - but only if maintainers say they will accept this behavior change. As far as I understand, this behavior is intentional and there's no point in me putting the work in if no one is going to even look at the code. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
