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Alexandre

29 Mar 29 Mar

8:19 p.m.

New subject: [trinity-users] Bug ?

Hi Guys, I think I may have stumbled across a bug in the version of Trinity that I use. PCLinuxOS from Alexandre's iso. If I click on "Home" Konqueror opens, if I then open a second new window by right clicking and choosing "Open in a new Window" on a directory. I now have two open windows. If I then create a new directory in the first window and open that. I now have three windows. If I now try to drag and drop a file from the second window into the new 3rd window the files end up in the first window. Not in the new 3rd directory. The same happens if I try to create a directory or a file in the new directory. It appears in the first window. Files do drag and drop correctly from the first window into any directory in that window. It gets very confusing items that you think you have put somewhere appearing somewhere else. -- Best Regards: Baron.

Hi Baron, Yes, this kind of thing happens because file managers, even in 2014, do not redraw the content of the directories as soon as changes are made in their content. To avoid this, the file manager should have a way to see when something new is added to the directory, then update the list of what is shown. The only way to be 100% sure of the content of a folder is to hit ''F5'', to reload the list, and that is to say that files has been correctly copied and that the file manager and the file system is exempt of bugs. Thank you! -Alexandre

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Tony Wolfs

5:46 p.m.

New subject: [trinity-users] Bug ?

On 03/30/2014 04:05 AM, Baron wrote:

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Hi Alexandre, On Saturday 29 March 2014 20:19:50 Alexandre wrote:

Hi Guys, I think I may have stumbled across a bug in the version of Trinity that I use. PCLinuxOS from Alexandre's iso. If I click on "Home" Konqueror opens, if I then open a second new window by right clicking and choosing "Open in a new Window" on a directory. I now have two open windows. If I then create a new directory in the first window and open that. I now have three windows. If I now try to drag and drop a file from the second window into the new 3rd window the files end up in the first window. Not in the new 3rd directory. The same happens if I try to create a directory or a file in the new directory. It appears in the first window. Files do drag and drop correctly from the first window into any directory in that window. It gets very confusing items that you think you have put somewhere appearing somewhere else. -- Best Regards: Baron.

Hi Baron, Yes, this kind of thing happens because file managers, even in 2014, do not redraw the content of the directories as soon as changes are made in their content. To avoid this, the file manager should have a way to see when something new is added to the directory, then update the list of what is shown. The only way to be 100% sure of the content of a folder is to hit ''F5'', to reload the list, and that is to say that files has been correctly copied and that the file manager and the file system is exempt of bugs. Thank you! -Alexandre

Thanks for your reply. I don't think that this is a redraw issue. The file gets moved and instantly appears in the wrong place. Its as if the second window is not there at all. If you follow my description and separate the windows you can see this happen. Or should I say that I can see this happen.

Hi Baron, I have tried to recreate the bug above as you described. On my computer all works as it should. I tried twice. However, 'I do' believe what you say as I have seen behavior like that, also in other distros.(( but << mostly and plentyful>> in kde4.)) Try to recreate the behavior of the bug on another place, say /mnt/partition/folder, w.o.w "not" in /home Tony

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TN Patriot

2:41 a.m.

New subject: [trinity-users] Bug ?

On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 02:41:56 +0100 (BST) Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro(a)yahoo.it> wrote:

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Hi Baron, if you can reproduce it in a regular way, please open a bug report, so we won't forget this problem over time. Please include the steps you mentioned.

this kind of thing happens because file managers, even in 2014, do not redraw the content of the directories as soon as changes are made in their content.

Konqueror in TDE has this refresh problem, and it annoys me a lot. it is definitely something we will have to look at after v14.0.0 has been released. Cheers Michele

Just install and use Krusader. It doesn't have this problem and I've been using it since the KDE3 days, IIRR. -- http://www.lawcollective.org/ Learn your rights through cartoons! http://www.roadblock.org/rights/ Know your rights about and at roadblocks! http://fija.org/ Learn about Jury Nullification! Take back your rights from the over-reaching: police, justice system and government! Why does the government want to ban you owning weapons? Because you won’t get in the box car willingly.

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