Can't change KDE pannel on Dolphin

I always set up my pannels on Dolphin (left side) this way http://susepaste.org/23965388 I could do it on a test openSUSE install, but now I can’t, which is very weird.
Everytime I close the file manager, the pannels get back to this: http://susepaste.org/34074887

openSUSE 13.2 X86_64
KDE 4.14.6

You mean the folders you add to the “Places” panel disappear again?

You,re right. I just noticed that I can easily reproduce this here.
There was a bugfix regarding such problems in the latest KDE update. Apparently this broke it even more… :
(only for dolphin’s Places panel though, it works fine in the file open/save dialog)

I guess this should be reported at http://bugs.kde.org/.
A similar bug has already been reported here and has a fix available that hopefully will be in the 15.04 release:
345347 – "Add to places" action doesn't work properly from context menu in dolphin
I will test later today whether this fix also fixes this issue.

PS: there’s another bug report which describes exactly this problem:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345174

I suppose as a workaround you could manually edit ~/.kde4/share/apps/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml in a text editor and add your folders this way.
Or downgrade kdelibs4* (and libkde4*) to 4.14.5 using the “Versions” tab in YaST.

PS, I played a bit with this, and the problem in fact seems to be that dolphin ignores bookmarks.xml and only loads ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel now. So you’d have to edit that.

Or add your folders in the file open/save dialog (in any KDE application), they will appear in dolphin as well then.

Thanks a lot, that helped :slight_smile: I assumed it wasn’t going to work, but anway… lol!

I added the folders in the save dialog and now they appear. Thanks.