https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422006
--- Comment #35 from Pete <p...@ozmartians.com> --- (In reply to Méven Car from comment #34) > (In reply to Pete from comment #33) > > (In reply to Méven Car from comment #32) > > > (In reply to Pete from comment #31) > > > > (In reply to Méven Car from comment #30) > > > > > Which desktop layout are using desktop or folder view ? > > > > > You have folder view if you have icons of your wallpaper/desktop. > > > > > > > > > > Simply put, do you have icons on your desktop ? > > > > > Does opening `desktop:/` in dolphin change the behavior ? > > > > > > > > > > A component watching for trash updates, is not started if you use the > > > > > "desktop" layout and might explain why I don't reproduce this. > > > > > Haven't checked myself. > > > > > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/kioworkers/ > > > > > desktop/desktopnotifier.cpp > > > > > > > > > > Another to check is to launch `kcmshell6 kcm_kded` and whether or not > > > > > "Directory Watcher" is launched/running. > > > > > > > > Why should folder or desktop view affect the behaviour of a file > > > > manager's > > > > ability to monitor its own trash? > > > > > > Because dolphin is mostly tested/used in plasma with default settings, > > > this > > > hasn't been noticed. > > > > > > KDE code spans decades, that we inherit as-is by from previous > > > maintainers, > > > that had limited resources as do we always. > > > Code evolves organically often without overarching design, this is > > > especially true for old components such as trash:/. > > > > > > > A file manager should be entirely independant of a user's desktop > > > > settings. > > > > > > You are correct dolphin shouldn't depend on this, not primarly for design > > > but for not-plasma users of dolphin. Fixing this might be a fix for this > > > bug. > > > > > > But please answer to my questions so I actually _know_ that's the issue. > > > That would be more valuable to fix the bug than having to explain the > > > past. > > > > Understood. But I just tested Dolphin in both folder and desktop view and > > the results are the same for both. Emtpy trash continues to show contents > > until refreshed manually. > > I should have added you need to logout for the desktop view change to have > an effect. > > You can use, to otherwise check: > > Another to check is to launch `kcmshell6 kcm_kded` and whether or not > > "Directory Watcher" is launched/running. > > If my hypothesis is correct: > If it is running the bug would not happen, if it is not running the bug > would be present. Am pretty sure its running, Screenshot of my background services: https://imgur.com/a/hPCX0rA -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
