I'm having a bit of a problem with FSV, in Konqueror in Filemanagement mode. Why it's there, I've no idea. As a tool, it's cluttered, confusing and utterly pointless. Anyone with an ounce of savvy would keep their file system in a neat and tidy fashion, without recourse to being told how big it was and where it was big. The detailed view gives you all the info you need. I use Konqueror as my File Manager, since Dolphin, to my mind is a de-featured and dumbed down version of Konqueror, with no redeeming features. However, and I've no idea why KDE is doing this, If I insert any device into the USB port, for example, and choose to use the File Manager to open it, It always uses Konqueror, as I wish, but opens the view in FSV view. Within the machine proper, Konqueror opens, as it's set to, in detail mode. Whilst it's a simple matter to adjust the view, of external devices, it has to be done every time, and it's annoying. I stress, that this is a recent thing. Up to now it's been fine. The solution, to me, would be to remove FSV entirely. I've no intention or desire to use it and would rejoice in it's removal. Any ideas, anyone.

On openSUSE here, fsview is in the separate package konqueror-plugins, which I could uninstall if I wanted to to remove it.
Or copy /usr/share/kde4/services/fsview_part.desktop (the path might differ slightly) to ~/.kde4/share/services (might be ~/.kde/ on your distribution) and add "Hidden=true" to the copy, this should disable it.

As for fsview being the default, I don't see that here.
Check what's set as default for inode/directory (and blockdevice and mount-point as well) in Systemsettings->FIle Association (on the "Embedded" tab).

Or try to change to the view you want as default (detailed I suppose), choose "Save Profile as" and save it as filemanagement profile.

fsview is part of konqueror-plugins and a dependency of Konqueror, you can force the uninstallation of it and see how Konq works without that and the the other plugins which may or not be acceptable to your workflow. you'd also want to lock the package so it doesn't get reinstalled automatically.

the issue is probably kioclient which is what device notifier is using to open the usb device, you could look at changing the settings there: device notifier settings -> device actions -> open with filemanager storage access, and try using at your own risk

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konqueror -p filemanagement %25f

doubtful but you could try %25u instead of %25f

Sorry. I should have said. I'm running Mageia 3. Konqueror plugins doesn't seem to be a feature of Mga, I'm afraid. I'll have a look at the other options. Just a thought though. A while back, I removed Dolphin, since it was, again, something I was not going to use. Then found that Konqueror was affected, in that the three rational views of icon, detailed and compact had gone with Dolphin, leaving only terminal, FSV and Cervasier. Not really a help in respect of a File Manager. I re-installed Dolphin and got back the missing options. In some respects, Konqueror has dependencies in Dolphin, which seems a bit strange.

Unfortunately in this distro, 'services' is not an option under the /kde4 branch. The profile of Konqueror is somewhat customised, and saved. So this version is the one that should come up when looking at plugged in devices. An odd thing, however. As I mentioned, when picking 'open wit the File Manager' on a plugged in device. )And this does include DVD's), FSV comes up However clicking up the 'UP' arrow to go to a higher level, the normal detailed view comes up. Clicking on the device, now the only entry, in the mount directory,, brings back the previous view, but this time in detailed view, and the FSView is not seen again. Thinking it might have been a temporary glitch, I tried re-booting, but the odd effect is persistent. At least I have a work-around solution, of sorts. It still rankles, however.

to find out what package provides fsview try

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locate fsviewpart.so|xargs rpm -q --whatprovides

it might be called konq-plugins (diff distros, diff packaging)

It is, in fact konq plugins. looking at the file listing in the package, the first one up is /usr/bin/fsview. I renamed it as oldfsview, to see if it did the trick, but no. The effect is still there. Trying it in a terminal, the command oldfsview does indeed bring up a fsview widow, wheras fsview brings up,, "command not found", as you'd expect

you need to rename the fsview_part.desktop and maybe fsviewpart.so file as Konq uses the embedded not standalone,

rodgoslin wrote: A while back, I removed Dolphin, since it was, again, something I was not going to use. Then found that Konqueror was affected, in that the three rational views of icon, detailed and compact had gone with Dolphin, leaving only terminal, FSV and Cervasier. Not really a help in respect of a File Manager. I re-installed Dolphin and got back the missing options. In some respects, Konqueror has dependencies in Dolphin, which seems a bit strange.

Konqueror is _no_ file manager, and it is no Webbrowser either.
It is just a shell to display other components, the so-called "KParts".
For file management, it just embeds dolphin (the dolphin KPart actually) in its window.

That's why it requires dolphin, for file management at least.

Removing dolphin might have changed the priority order of the KParts. When dolphin is not available, fsview is the preferred one.
You should be able to rectify that in the file associations settings.

rodgoslin wrote:Unfortunately in this distro, 'services' is not an option under the /kde4 branch.

This has nothing to do with your distro.
If that directory ("services") doesn't exist, create it.

As I mentioned, when picking 'open wit the File Manager' on a plugged in device. )And this does include DVD's), FSV comes up However clicking up the 'UP' arrow to go to a higher level, the normal detailed view comes up. Clicking on the device, now the only entry, in the mount directory,, brings back the previous view, but this time in detailed view, and the FSView is not seen again. Thinking it might have been a temporary glitch, I tried re-booting, but the odd effect is persistent. At least I have a work-around solution, of sorts. It still rankles, however.

As I said, check your file associations, inode/mount-point in particular.
Also check what's set for File Manager in Systemsettings->Default Applications.

Ah, I think I've come up with a sloution. I'm not sure, at the moment, whether I've opened another can of worms, but it seems to work. I simply deleted the .kde4 directory after closing down all Komqueror instances. The system immediaetly replaced it, as usual, and the 'new' version does not have the problem. It might be an inelegant solution (the sledgehammer approach) but I think I'll stop while I'm still ahead. Thanks to all for the advice. It has certainly given me food for thought, and I'll be looking at the system in the light of what you have said. Thanks again, Rod Goslin