Dolphin "create new" no longer works

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I upgraded to the latest Dolphin: dolphin-24.08.2-1.fc40.x86_64

If I go to the hamburger menu and select “create new” nothing happens. I don’t get a option to create a new folder.

Wanted to check if anyone else is experiencing this issue before I notify upstream.

Thanks

Edit: Just tested with pcmanfm-qt and see similar behavior. Nautilus works fine.

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Sorry, I can’t replicate that on Fedora 40 KDE using the same Dolphin version - I normally use a menubar instead of the hamburger, but I switched and both work on my system.

It might be helpful for a bug report to see if you can create a new folder using the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+N)?

And, this “smells” like it might be related to 494679 – Dolphin populates "Create new" menu with the content of home dir - any issues with your Templates directory, by chance?

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Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, it appears to work properly when I user Ctrl+Shift+N, so that is a great workaround.

Also, yes I’m getting content of home directory and I also have:
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR=“$HOME/”

Looks like this might have had something to do with: https://ostechnix.com/creating-templates-in-kde-plasma-just-got-easier/

Do you know the recommendation for the Templates file. I would think it would be specific to each application, but apparently not.

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Based on what I can see here: 494679 – Dolphin populates "Create new" menu with the content of home dir

It looks like editing your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file to change XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/" to XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates" (Creating that folder first if needed) should work?

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Is it not working in every folder or did you only try it in one? It could be you don’t have the rights to create a file or folder in that location.

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Yep, that did it. Thanks!

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