Re: Dolphin no longer allows me to create a new entity by right-clicking on an empty spot in the right panel

On 2026-06-14 16:57, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 2026-06-10 03:16, Aurélien COUDERC wrote:
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> Le 9 juin 2026 20:03:26 GMT+02:00, Gary Dale <[email protected]> 
>> a écrit :
>>> I'm running Debian/Forky on an AMD64 system. I use Dolphin with the 
>>> Details view mode.
>>> I had been hoping this was a temporary aberration and normal 
>>> operations would resume when a library was updated. However, I'm am 
>>> now forced to the conclusion that someone thought this was good idea 
>>> for some reason.
>> This looks like [1] even if the use case is slightly different.
>>
>> The bug mentions a workaround that I'm copying here in case it can 
>> help :
>>
>> «
>> This is in Settings -> Configure Dolphin -> View - Details - Open 
>> files and folders: I have this set to "By clicking on icon or name" 
>> Make sure you have that option, it should allow the behavior you're 
>> expecting.
>> »
>>
>> [1] <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519456>
>>
>>
>> Happy hacking,
>> -- 
>> Aurélien
>>
> Thanks. That worked. Possibly they added that as a new option but had 
> it default to the new behaviour rather than the old behaviour.

And another one. Yesterday my "editable location bar" stopped being that 
way. No matter how many times I set the view to be editable, it kept 
reverting a bread crumb trail. This one now has to be set in Settings -> 
Configure Dolphin -> Status & Location bars. The View setting is now 
just a temporary override.