https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158934
Riccardo Robecchi <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #19 from Riccardo Robecchi <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Elvis Angelaccio from comment #18) > Git commit ae1d441dacef7e52984201abdc9a918ce060021c by Elvis Angelaccio, on > behalf of Nate Graham. > Committed on 23/10/2020 at 17:00. > Pushed by elvisangelaccio into branch 'master'. > > Show home folder if needed after unmounting mounted disk > > Right now, when you unmount a device that any active view containers are > displaying, nothing in the view changes. As a result, it's possible to > try to navigate to files or folders in that view, which cannot be done > because the disk that the files or folders are located on has been > unmounted! > > With this commit, we detect that case and switch the view containers > to show the home folder after the disk whose contents they are displaying > gets unmounted. > FIXED-IN: 20.12 > > M +19 -0 src/dolphinmainwindow.cpp > M +9 -1 src/dolphinmainwindow.h > M +3 -0 src/panels/places/placesitemmodel.cpp > M +1 -0 src/panels/places/placesitemmodel.h > M +2 -0 src/panels/places/placespanel.cpp > M +1 -0 src/panels/places/placespanel.h > > https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/commit/ > ae1d441dacef7e52984201abdc9a918ce060021c I honestly don't find this an improvement - if anything, I find this a regression. It has happened to me that a disk was unmounted without me noticing (e.g. because of an issue with the cable I was using). Having an error message was actually useful to realise that something was not working. If you redirect users to the /home folder, there's no indication that the position they were in is not available anymore; plus, the user does not reasonably expect to see the /home folder after a device or folder has been unmounted. There is also a peculiar, but nonetheless valid, use case in not being moved away from the folder: if you need to unmount a device and then remount it, it is rather useful to not have to navigate a possibly intricate tree of folders again. With the current behaviour you can just update the view; with the new one, you have to navigate again to the desired position. I know this is a bit like XKCD's famous "I press the space bar to heat my room" thing, but I am really opposed to the new behaviour as it does not solve the issue and just sidesteps it with a solution that doesn't feel right. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
