Don't upgrade to 15.04 just yet, like I did

[Rich Oliver]

Hm. I dunno about the rest of you, but now my Gwenview has duplicate/triplicate entries in its Places:



"downloads," "junk," and "ownCloud" are items I added to Dolphin's Places moments ago. So there's still some wonkiness going on.

Oh that's somewhat reassuring for me personally. I was getting something similar on a clean 30/05/2015 tumbleweed install. I noticed to my horror that for some reason it was still using a 4.04-1 kernel, so I just got the hell out of it fearing my file system had been trashed. Particularly as I keep most of my data and some applications on cross distro data partitions.

[vinnywright]

And items added to Places are stored in none of the three files in my post #64 but instead in a fourth: ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel. So there are four files that purport to contain Dolphin Places, and lots of overlap between them. Weird.

I'm thinking it is because of the mix of plasma4 and plasma5 apps we have as yet ,,,,and no 1 place for them to look to for a proper .config/and such

VINNY

[NoWorries]

I have just checked Gwenview and I don't have duplicate or triplicate entries in Places.

I am beginning to wonder if it is because I have selected all boxes in Kubuntu updates in Muon's Software Sources. I know this is potentially dangerous but as I have this system on a separate USB Flash Memory, I am prepared to take the risk.

[SteveRiley]

I deleted both instances of bookmarks.xml. Then I started Gwenview with strace. The output shows that Gwenview reads:

• ~/.local/share/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml
• ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel

Curiously, Gwenview created a new ~/.local/share/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml file. And now that I'm down to just two files containing Places, I'm still seeing three entries for a lot of them like in my earlier screenshot.

I straced Dolphin; it reads only ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel now.

[NoWorries]

Hi Steve,

My bookmarks.xml file is 25/04/2015 which is rather "ancient" and has not been modified for some time. I am not sure if this will help, but this file contains the following code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xbel>
<xbel xmlns:mime="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info" xmlns:bookmark="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-bookmarks" xmlns:kdepriv="http://www.kde.org/kdepriv" dbusName="kfilePlaces">
 <bookmark href="file:///home/aurora">
  <title>Home</title>
  <info>
   <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org">
    <bookmark:icon name="user-home"/>
   </metadata>
   <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org">
    <ID>1429921008/0</ID>
    <isSystemItem>true</isSystemItem>
   </metadata>
  </info>
 </bookmark>
 <bookmark href="remote:/">
  <title>Network</title>
  <info>
   <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org">
    <bookmark:icon name="network-workgroup"/>
   </metadata>
   <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org">
    <ID>1429921008/1</ID>
    <isSystemItem>true</isSystemItem>
   </metadata>
  </info>
 </bookmark>
 <bookmark href="file:///">
  <title>Root</title>
  <info>
   <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org">
    <bookmark:icon name="folder-red"/>
   </metadata>
   <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org">
    <ID>1429921008/2</ID>
    <isSystemItem>true</isSystemItem>
   </metadata>
  </info>
 </bookmark>
 <bookmark href="trash:/">
  <title>Trash</title>
  <info>
   <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org">
    <bookmark:icon name="user-trash"/>
   </metadata>
   <metadata owner="http://www.kde.org">
    <ID>1429921008/3</ID>
    <isSystemItem>true</isSystemItem>
   </metadata>
  </info>
 </bookmark>
</xbel>

[SteveRiley]

My bookmarks.xml file is 25/04/2015 which is rather "ancient" and has not been modified for some time.

Mine looks exactly the same. It's the default that Gwenview apparently writes if the file doesn't exist.

[WaltS48]

I just noticed my Application launcher > Computer has two entries for Home, Network, Root and Trash.

[NoWorries]

. . .I straced Dolphin; it reads only ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel now.

I dual boot between my 14.10 and my 15.04 systems, so I can copy files between them. On my 14.10 Dolphin I have different "Places" defined. While on my 14.10 system I copied the file ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel onto the 15.04 system after I had renamed the file ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel on my 15.04 system.

When I booted the 15.04 system, Dolphin had the places of my 14.10 system. I am therefore wondering if you can get a copy of ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel from a previous system and copy it onto your 15.04 system. Does this still show duplicate entries in "Places".

As I have not had any trouble with duplicate entries, I do not know if what I have suggested will work. If it doesn't, then the source of the duplication must be some other unknown file.

When I

[SteveRiley]

I deleted some of the duplicates from Gwenview, but eventually they returned.

Places in Dolphin re-ordered themselves:



Places in File -> Open dialogs are missing some defaults:



Observations:

• ~/.kde/share/apps/kfileplaces/ directory is empty
• ~/.local/share/kfileplaces/bookmarks.xml contains duplicates of the defaults -- it's as if Gwenview keeps writing things there. It also contains the items I've added
• ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel contains only the three items I've added

There is definitely some wonkiness going on. Some process must be errantly writing to bookmarks.xml without verifying whether entries already exist.

[claydoh]

I wonder if these are one of the many things in KDE that need to be deleted from outside a Plasma session as they are cached and written back to disk later?

[SteveRiley]

I dunno. But just now I reordered the items in Dolphin's Places:



and suddenly File -> Open dialogs are now back to normal:



Meanwhile, Gwenview now has six instances of Home | Network | Root | Trash:

[claydoh]

I just noticed it has grown in my Gwenview as well

[SteveRiley]

I filed a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...w/+bug/1461708

All, please click the green "Does this bug affect you?" link if you're having the same problem.

[SteveRiley]

Of all the problems I have with 15.04, this is not (yet) one of them

Are you running the Kubuntu backports PPA?

[claydoh]

I am NOT seeing this in Either the kubuntu-ci version or Manjaro, which are using Frameworks 5.11 and 5.10. We are at frameworks 5.9 with the Backports ppa atm.