For example, I have a Videos folder with files of different types - mp4, avi, mkv, etc.
All I want to do is to right click on a video file, select Properties and have the Details tab displayed withoout having to adjust the window size or click the right arrow to move to the Details tab.
I adjusted the width of the Properties window such that the Display tab is fully visible. However, I do not know how to make any such width adjustment permanent for all media files.
Also, why was it decided to give the Checksum tab more prominence in the Properties window than the Details tab which, in my opinion, most people are likely to use more often?
Ah, good âAll I want to doâŠâ makes it sound trivial indeed, like âAll I want to do is fly to Mars and back in a single weekend, shouldnât be too much to ask?â
Iâm not sure how itâs valid that you have different filetypes in a folder, youâre going to context click a single file and select Properties.
You can do that also with AltEnter
Now a Properties dialog pops up on the General tab, and we can press:
AltD to go to Details, right?
Now the Details tab is open, and I didnât touch the arrow keys.
However, that window does not actually remember the size, but the text does wrap around.
Iâm not sure why you think you had to adjust the width of that so that the Display tab is fully visible, because there is no âDisplayâ tab - only General, Permissions, Checksums and Details.
Is it the order of the tabs which you find offensive? For sure, General > Permissions > Checksums > Details isnât alphabetical.
Details does seem logically the final roundup tab, opposite to GeneralâŠ
But I donât see how the order of those tabs gives them prominence, indeed Iâd say the First and Last tabs are the most prominent, with the two middle tabs being slightly less so being âpiggy in the middleâ as it were.
Just as when you drop down a âFileâ menu, the âQuitâ item is always right at the bottom regardless of alphabetical order or logical progressioni of importance⊠itâs an arbritrary decision.
What puzzles me most is this âDisplay tabâ, because I donât see that.
I apologise for any confusion caused by me using the word âDisplayâ when I should have referred to the Details tab throughout.
I attach several Properties window screenshots. Hopefully, the screenshots demonstrate my point about the width inconsistency. Even though the Properties window contains the same four tabs every time, the Details tab varies in how much of it gets displayed.
My assumption is that the width of the Properties window adjusts to what needs to be displayed on the General tab and the âOpen Withâ field in particular. That would be ok if users could globally rearrange the tab order according to their own preferences. Or if users could determine the minimum width of the Properties window. Or if the Properties window was programmed to fully display all four tabs every time.
did you resize the 2nd window after you called up the properties, or is that how the properties windows comes up when open it for that file?
no matter which file i try to open properties on, the window always comes up the same size and cannot be resized any smaller (horizontally), i can only make it bigger.
but then the next time i call it up itâs back to itâs regular size⊠which does not cut off the tabs.
I actually thought I had this issue solved after I created a new user, switched to the Kubuntu Dark instead of Breeze Dark global theme and kept the scaling at 100%. It was all going very well and I even posted a âthis issue is solvedâ video - which I had to delete soon after posting. The problem was that, because I had previously assumed that the Properties window width issue was related to either the length of the filename or the app used to open it, I did not test using a vareity of file types. If I only test on video files with different file name lengths then there appears to be no issue.
I have concluded from my testing that, instead of the Properties window being one sensible width where the Details tab is always visible, the width depends on the file type. Video files are ok as are html and exe. However, picture files, pdf, zip and txt files are not ok. (I have not tested all or even most file types.)
I even tried changing the default app for a picture file but that made no difference.
Dragging the Properties window to a different width is pointless as size adjustments are not retained.
Does anyone else who is using the latest Kubuntu version - 26.04 LTS have a different experience? Or, maybe you have an earlier version where this issue does not exist. (I have read that previous versions of KDE Plasma allowed more customistaion of the Properties window.)
Can this issue be declared as a bug or at least errant behaviour?
I think definitely - it happens for me, so itâs nothing new, and itâs not fixed as you can see by my screenshots - simply choosing different files made it happen, the window width isnât always set right.
So it isnât just an ancient Kubuntu quirk Maybe itâs been around for donkeys years.
Here with a very long location (elided) it doesnât allow space for the four tabs. Itâs possible that this is intentional, or deemed not worth fixing.
Maybe itâs been around for donkeys years.
