Hi …
Konqueror falsely recognizes that a folder ( /etc/apache2/vhosts.d) is of type text/x-dsrc instead of correctly recognizing it as inode/directory - hence you cannot right click and open in a tab as a folder
Dolphin also recognizes that folder as type text/x-dsrc but at least it can open that folder in a tab.
So any ideas on how to get Konqueror to recognize that folders with a *.d ( like conf.d , ssl.crt etc ) are actually folders ?
Rgds,
Marco
First prove what /etc/apache2/vhosts.d is:
ls -ld /etc/apache2/vhosts.d
Hehehehe … vhosts.d is used to setup virtual hosts in opensuse … Its been there for years and years …
Anyway …
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 23:19 /etc/apache2/vhosts.d
Also …
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 13 22:59 /etc/apache2/conf.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 17 2018 /etc/apache2/sysconfig.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 22 23:19 /etc/apache2/vhosts.d
Another note - This has never happened with any version of opensuse before 42.3 …
I am fully aware of that, but when some GUI application says it isn’t a directory, the first thing I would do is check it directly without any interference of a GUI. Only after that confirms that it is what it should be, I would do the next steps in finding out what is wrong with that silly GUI application.
And BTW,
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First, I do not see this on LEAP 15.0 (I specialy started Konqueror for this and managed to find out how to use it as file manager, I normaly use Dolphin for that).
As this happens in both applications, my guess is that it is a central KDE thing. And as for KDE the connection between file name patterns (like having a suffix .d) is configured in System Settings > Applications > File associations (rough translation back from Dutch), I went there and searched for x-dsrc. To my surprise there is such an MIME type there, it is described: D-source code (whatever that may be). And it is connected to the file patterns *.d and *.di.
So far so good. But I am with you when you say that this only should count when it is about a normal file, and not about a directory. I have no explanation for that.
Noted. Thanks.
Can i remove that mime type ? I have never worked on ony D Source Code …
Any idea where that central location is to remove this x-dsrc mime type ? So that it would not interfere with konqueror or dolphin ?
I am running opensuse 42.3 with xfce.
I do not know about xfce, you should try to find the equivalent of what I have describes about KDE.
But then, I am not sure that will help. The application should first decide if it is a directory or not. Once it thinks it is a normal file, it will go for x-dsrc, but then we are already past the problem point.
Hi …I found the text/x-dsrc mimetype at /home/userm/.local/share/mime/packages and /home/userm/.local/share/mime/text.
Its an xml file " x-dsrc.xml " with contents as below …
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mime-type xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info" type="text/x-dsrc">
<!--Created automatically by update-mime-database. DO NOT EDIT!-->
<comment>folder</comment>
<glob-deleteall/>
</mime-type>
I just renamed the file to x-dsrc_xml and restarted konqueror.
There is a change … Konqueror now sees that vhosts.d folder as D Source Code … hehehehehehehe
Note - earlier it reported it as folder / text-x-dsrc ( instead of the expected folder/inode-directory)
Any other ideas on what else i can do ?
Well, it increases the mystics I assume. 
Again, I am not an XFCE user, but as it seems to be a desktop , thus user configuration/environment thing, you could create a fresh user and see if it happens there also. This is more of a basic trial when somebody reposts things that other users can not reproduce.
Thanks for trying. Much appreciated.
Sorry, some misunderstanding here?
I am not trying anything. My suggestion was that you create a new user in your system and then check if the same problem persists in that new users session.
I mean thanks for trying to help. I am closing the matter - indicated by [CLOSED] in the title.
Once again thank you for spending some time on this.
You are welcome.
Well, it seems you have a solution? Or are you giving up?
Other people, finding your thread because they may have the same will be interested.