Dolphin Opening Extra Folder

[AlexW]

I’ve had a problem (well, annoyance) with dolphin, since I reinstalled a few months ago.

Whenever I click a plasma icon, on a panel, to a folder location, dolpin opens an extra tab. It’s a variation on a theme. It may open my ~/Music folder. It may also try to open non-existent folders, such as: /home/Music or ~/Pictures/Music . There’s also a /run/ variant, but that doesn’t come up often, so hard to get it to repeat.

I tried deleting dolphinrc under~/.config/ and the ~/.cache/dolphin/ folder, but this didn’t fix it.

Not a deal breaker, but if anyone has an idea, that’d be great.

[jofi]

@AlexW

Whenever I click a plasma icon, on a panel, to a folder location, dolpin opens an extra tab.

I’m not sure what you mean. The only thing i can think of what could be seen as an “extra tab” is perhaps the “state from last time”, see “Configure Dolphin → Show on startup”.

[Ben]

@AlexW

Whenever I click a plasma icon, on a panel, to a folder location, dolpin opens an extra tab.

That is perfectly expected behaviour.

I’m not sure what the ‘issue’ is here.

If you set behaviour to open in tabs, then whenever you open a Place from krunner, or from Plasma (the tray icon etc) then it will open that Place in a new tab.

[AlexW]

I didn’t explain it properly. So, I click on a .desktop link on a panel.

Yes, it opens that link, in dolphin, in a new tab, yet it will also open one of the other locations, as well as the .desktop link I clicked on, in a new tab.

I hope that makes sense.

[Ben]

Start with killall dolphin

• Click icon - result, one dolphin window (showing /movies)
• Click icon​Audio - result, one dolphin window (showing /movies | Desktop in two tabs).

This when set to keep a single Dolphin window opening new folders in tabs.

This is actually incorrect, because you can still open another Dolphin window - but Plasma won’t open your Places in new windows, only in new tabs in existing windows.

This is weird, beecause if ‘Keep a SINGLE window’ is checked or not, it does not keep a SINGLE window at all.

This is something I will mention at discuss.KDE… it’s a mess.

Just think of that as ‘opening new folders in tabs’ but if it’s not checked, it will open new folders in tabs and open new windows with other tabs too - I get your point now.

[AlexW]

I’m not sure I understand. I’m not sue what you mean by clicking the the audio icon.

I tried changing it to start up at default (/home/alex). On doing, the .desktop links open just their folder, not home (which sort of makes sense) but again, it still opens an extra tab, with one of the Music folders.

[Ben]

Keep a single Dolphin window, opening new folders in tabs

[Ben]

@AlexW

I’m not sure I understand. I’m not sue what you mean by clicking the the audio icon.

You mentioned opening a location from Plasma where you can right click and select one of your ‘Places’. I have Audio as one of my Places…

@AlexW

it still opens an extra tab, with one of the Music folders.

Whenever you open a ‘Place’ from plasma, it will open in a new tab - it will not replace existing tabs.

[AlexW]

Sorry for not replying. I stumbled on the solution to my problem. Brining up the KDE Menu Editor, I brought up Dolphin, and and under Command-ine arguments, there was %Music . I deleted this, and the problem is resolved. I’ve no idea how that argument got there. Thanks for the help though.