If you use per-directory styles, this setting is remembered, and does not change things in other locations. I use the details view on one specific location, without previews. All my other dirs have them enabled do no lose the setting, and vice versa.
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#1→ Or you could just hit ctrl +/- when Dolphin is open to the offending directory…? It’’l zoom in/out to what ever size your eyes are good with and this way EVERYONE can do it very easily.
I’m not sure why you all have to make this so difficult?
#1 →Settings→configure Dolphin→Click VIEW on the left..on the right ensure the dot is in “Remember display style for each folder”
ON the left click Interface - on the right tick the dot “ Show full path in the title bar”
–that alone makes the title bar useful…sigh…however….
#1→ with Interface highlighted , on the right, tick the dot into “switch between views with the Tab key”
This way it will be extremely easy for you to quickly adjust the view type and icon sizes in ANY directory and Dolphin will always remember the very last view setting you used in any particular directory.
Other than Dolphin being wired directly into your thoughts this is about the best you can get form ANY file manager.
I read in another thread, someone actually posted that they did not like the fact that KDE looks like it was built from the ground up to be function over design. I thought? REALLY? Image that, something that’s built to worked FIRST and then look pretty and all the while staying fairly non-complex as far as user settings and configuration goes.
The ONLY issues with KDE, PLASMA and Dolphin is that they are SO configurable that newbies get confused/overwhelmed with the amount of settings they now have compared to Windows Explorer.
I got confused/overwhelmed to. I know I am not a genius but, I’m certainly not stupid and am a techie type for all my life.
My best advice is RTFM until you just can’t bear to read it anymore.
Then ask for help on any decent Linux forum.
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THAT shortcut thing is VERY interesting.
I That’s what the shortcuts on my desktop look like.
This might be a bug for you, you should search the bugs list to see if one like ti exists.
Doesn’t affect me but a combination of software’s might cause this to. Incompatibilities being what they are.
I have one where I could not move a shortcut between displays, 3 displays, all had shortcuts, they all worked, just couldn’t move them. It was fixed in 3 weeks.
I mean, it’s SO configurable.
Claydoh has his way, I got mine, find yours.
Hey I KNOW, make those settings I posted for Dolphin.
NOW remember the below:
ctrl+/- zoom = increase/decrease icon/txt view size in Directories
tab = change view style (detail to various icon views)
F3 = split window view
ctrl + F4 = open terminal in current users home directory
ctrl+shift+F4 = open terminal in Dolphins current working directory
–> if no folder is highlighted, the path will be in your title bar, if a folder is highlighted the path will be in your title bar plus that highlighted folder name.
ctrl+N = open new window
ctrl+T = open new tab
ctrl+alt+c = with any folder or file highlight it will copy that path
There, I assume you already know some others, basics ctrl+x/c/v, alt+F4 and F2 with a folder or file highlighted to rename it?
With the above and some practice you’ll be flying around Dolphin in no time.
I usually just drag and drop from Dolphin the desktop to make shortcuts.
I understand you are simply giving instruction to create a “name.desktop” file and that’s awesome but drag and drop is what us ex-Winblows guys do.
My home folder, the trash can, a shortcut to a folder where I place all the stuff I need all the time are just created by drag and drop from Dolphin to the desktop.
Is there a better way?
P.S.→
I find that knowing howto create .desktop files comes in REAL handy when you’re setting up a custom app/script (anyone using Claude or ChatGPT came make simple ones now)and where to copy it to also, for it to show up in the application menu.
Cheers all 
But these shortcuts are not what are asked for in this thread, because they point to /home/username/desktop/link in Dolphin. What I found out, on context menu of such folders there is a “show target” functionality. This is what is asked for as simple (double-)left-click. And since it seems there is no other solution yet, I showed a work around. If the current implementation of drag and drop is what you need, you can ignore my advice.
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for the trash can there is a widget for that you can add which gives you some animation and status details you can’t get from just a link.
I never figured out links in Dolphin. I just press F4 to open a terminal panel and type ln -s path-to-the-file. Always does what I want because it’s a regular CLI.
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When I use filter to search for ex. sessionstore-backups in the Firefox profile folder.
I would go into the folder, but then go back and would have to reenter what I want to filter.
In windows, what I searched for stays there and is not applied to the folder that I click in.
I found out regarding #1 - Shortcuts/links that if i have for example “/’ directory as shortcut on Desktop and i share my Desktop via network to VirtualBox, i can access “/” directory. Does that mean someone from network can just make shortcut inside any shared folder? I haven’t test it deeply