Moved to using KDE recently and it’s everything I’ve ever wanted in aesthetics and customization. Unfortunately, dolphin doesn’t refresh when files are moved around and while I tried to accept it, I just can’t. Showing me where files are is literally the only job of a file manager.
Are there any other file managers that can take all the themes and colors in KDE? I love having a full theme but I can’t stand this manual refresh thing.
My dolphin takes ~0.5 seconds, I don’t really see any problem, but, if you want try something PCMan file manager updated instantly, I just don’t like the icons but it’s up for you.
If it helps I’m running Kubuntu 26.04 LTS
PS: “Files” by “The Gnome Project” has better icons and UX and updates instantly-
It does and I’ve been using it lately, but I really want my pretty theming.
Does this happen when browsing local files or just network shares (SMB or Vs ssh) ?
Both. All network share and any local files edited outside of the dolphin. Do if I mkdir on my pc it won’t show until I close dolphin or F5. If I copy and paste through sftp it just pretends it didn’t happen until I close dolphin. This is not true on Nautilus.
Press F5 to refresh.
That’s dumb, even windows isn’t that dumb.
Might be this bug. You can add more information to it and possibly help the devs fix it. There’s another one that seems to be the issue, but presenting differently.
But this is a main fetaure. It shouldn’t be capable of just bugging out.
First - this is a stupid take.
But second - KDE is easily the buggiest de/wm I’ve ever used. Things just not working sometimes is basically a feature.
What, you would find it ok, if, let’s say in your favorite text editor, the text cursor just stopped moving?
Another stupid take. You’re on a roll.
Have you donated to KDE? Have you contributed to its development? Cause you sure as hell didn’t pay for it so maybe shut up or be a little more grateful that a free and open DE is only a few features away from a competitor developed by billion dollar companies
Go back to slashdot in the '90s with that attitude.
I mean you’re criticizing a piece of free software like they made it just for you. Grow up and have some perspective
Oh my - yes the KDE team is surely above criticism.
Hey man, they gave us Kdenlive. That thing has singlehandedly taken down Sony VEGAS Pro and so many other worse, closed-source, commercial video-editing programs. If you dislike Dolphin, find any one of the other thousands of file managers, but don’t attack KDE.
You’d think walking was a basic feature of humans, but so many do it incorrectly.
It doesn’t seem like you’re a engineer: everything and anything can fail. It’s just how the world works.
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Well… I guess not everyone’s as smart as you, then.
Are you using btrfs by any chance? I think copy-on-write can sometimes cause delays in Dolphin. Mine doesn’t always update the free disk space right away when I delete a file, for example.
I can’t say I know what that is.
Oh sorry! In Linux there are different ways of formatting your drives, kind of like FAT32 and NTFS in Windows, if you’re familiar with those? Anyway, ext4 is like the old reliable in Linux, and btrfs is the newer one which I think is the default on some distros now.
Anyway, if you open up Konsole and type lsblk -f it should tell you which one you have. I don’t think you can change it without reformatting and starting over though.
Oh ok, I know what page we’re on now. I use ext4 for all my drives, save for 2 loaner flash drives in NTFS and the drive for my hacked 360 in fat32.