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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: The "NoInfo" Additional Info mode in Detail View of Dolphin
From:       Frank Reininghaus <frank.reininghaus () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2010-02-13 13:53:06
Message-ID: 201002131453.06944.frank.reininghaus () googlemail ! com
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Hi,

On Friday 12 February 2010 23:22:46 Harsh J wrote:
> I like seeing my files as a linear list, which is perfectly what
> Details View does (with other *optional* columns) and I love keeping
> it in that way. However, I don't really require the use of some of the
> columns presented in the details view by default - Size and Date.
> 
> Turning these off in a Dolphin instance is easy, one just has to
> r-click the column and be done with it via a checkbox in the context
> menu - But this does not seem to persist for the 'Size' AND 'Date'.
> 
> Removing either one seems to work fine, but removing both seems to
> trigger the NoInfo type which is handled at line 331 of
> dolphin/src/viewproperties.cpp to re-add Size and Date options.
> 
> Shouldn't NoInfo be just No-Info?
> 
> Minor gripe perhaps, I can live with this but I like just Names on my
> details (list) view and a real working NoInfo would be nice to have.
> Attached is a patch to remove the same check, but as its comments
> state - it must be there for some purpose. Is it okay to remove this
> check and re-add though? If not I shall live with a local patch ;-)

The issue you're referring to is 

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176816

There is indeed a reason for the check (and for the rather unexpected 
behaviour that results from it), see Peter's comment in the bug report. It 
seems that some more work is needed to fix the issue :-(

Cheers,
Frank
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