René J.V. Bertin writes:
On Sunday April 04 2021 11:45:16 Moritz Petersen wrote:
first place. In my (perhaps naive) opinion there should not be
any
reason for the file to be accessed unless I interact with it's
content in some way.
Ah, but that's the point: atime is updated because of more
actions than mtime. The way I understand it, atime is updated
each time you access any file property other than what you need
to obtain a basic directory listing (but doing that will update
the directory's atime).
Well, a basic directory listing is essentially what I want from
dolphin, right? You don't need to access a file to know it's size
and timestamps for example, so I thought maybe dolphin wouldn't
need to do so to display them. But then again you already need to
read magic numbers to make sensible assumptions about the type of
content. Empty files probably weren't the most realistic test
case.
Looks like atime just isn't as useful as I had hoped it would
be. I'm going to go for a different solution.
Do you have the right-hand panel in Dolphin that shows file
information, rating, etc? You could disable that, or disable the
various info-to-be-shown options one by one and see if (and
which) solves your issue. The fact that you see it happen for
certain file types but not others suggests Dolphin isn't the one
doing the actual accessing, but rather some library it depends
on.
No, I do not have that panel enabled. I have also disabled all
info columns, no change.
Thanks again
