Re: Reseting Konqueror Home-Directory Settings [Solved]
On Sunday 22 February 2009, Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> El Domingo, 22 de Febrero de 2009, Chris escribió:
> > On Friday 20 February 2009, Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> > > Try looking for a file named "$HOME/.directory", and editing/removing
> > > it.
> >
> > That worked! The file does not seem to be automatically created, do you
> > know where it could have come from?
>
> In my experience, this kind of files are created by Konqueror when you set
> the view preferences to be saved per directory. Unfortunately, when I
> turned it off it still kept reading the existing ones, although it didn't
> create new ones.
>
> Personally, I find this kind of feature a bad idea (or a bad implementation
> of it) because of this: once you change the setting, it's kind of
> impossible to completely get rid of it, unless you are a power user who
> understands a little bit what's under the hood. I found that there is an
> option to remove the properties of the folder (KDE 3), but still it's hard
> to understand that what is happening is due to a property that was set in
> the folder.
Well I'd have to aggree, my "Save view chages per Folder" was not active.
Maye I had turned it off at some point. I guess turning it on would have
solved my problem. Having .directory seems nice if you want the folder to
appear the same in different systems that mount or access the directory. I
noticed this behavior but didn't know how it worked before.
C
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