Couple of things about Dolphin...

[Kelly Miller]

1)  Now that Dolphin has Tab as well as multiple window support, would
it be possible to add "Open in New Tab" and "Open in New Window" to the
top of the Dolphin context menu?  I fail to understand why Dolphin
doesn't have these in the context menu; they're probably the most used
commands in a file manager.

2)  Um, since both Dolphin and Konqueror are going to be looking for
entries in the Actions menu, wouldn't it be a good idea to put Action
menu entries in one place, preferably separate from both programs and
have both look there for the necessary entries?  Having to make two
copies of things in the Actions menu seems both inefficient and
annoying, and AFAICS doesn't work right anyway.

3)  Would it be possible for Dolphin to open archives using the kio_tar
and kio_zip slaves?  It's kind of annoying having to bring up Ark every
single time I want to work with an archive; IMO, it's overkill for
simply taking files out of an archive...

Also, I would consider this a bug, but you can't switch between tabs
when  you're dragging a file in Dolphin, making the creation of symbolic
links much more annoying, unless you use multiple windows generally
(personally, I don't if I don't have to).

Hi Kelly,

On Tuesday, 10. June 2008 18:29:25 Kelly Miller wrote:
> 1)  Now that Dolphin has Tab as well as multiple window support, would
> it be possible to add "Open in New Tab" and "Open in New Window" to the
> top of the Dolphin context menu?  I fail to understand why Dolphin
> doesn't have these in the context menu; they're probably the most used
> commands in a file manager.

It's not planned at the moment adding those 2 actions to the context menu as
they are not the most used commands at least for Dolphins target user group
(http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de/philosophy.html).

However I try to listen to user input as much as possible; if I get 20
wish-requests on bugs.kde.org that those entries are so mandatory, then this
might be an indication that my current assumption was wrong.

> 2)  Um, since both Dolphin and Konqueror are going to be looking for
> entries in the Actions menu, wouldn't it be a good idea to put Action
> menu entries in one place, preferably separate from both programs and
> have both look there for the necessary entries?  Having to make two
> copies of things in the Actions menu seems both inefficient and
> annoying, and AFAICS doesn't work right anyway.

I'm not sure whether I understood your question. Konqueror and Dolphin use
already the same "Actions..." menu.

> 3)  Would it be possible for Dolphin to open archives using the kio_tar
> and kio_zip slaves?  It's kind of annoying having to bring up Ark every
> single time I want to work with an archive; IMO, it's overkill for
> simply taking files out of an archive...

This is already possible in KDE 4.0. In Dolphin for KDE 4.1 there is a setting
so that it can be configured whether you want to browse through an archive or
open the corresponding application.

> Also, I would consider this a bug, but you can't switch between tabs
> when  you're dragging a file in Dolphin, making the creation of symbolic
> links much more annoying, unless you use multiple windows generally
> (personally, I don't if I don't have to).

This has not been implemented yet (maybe for KDE 4.2) and I don't see this as
an urgent issue as the split view is more comfortable for this usecase. But I
agree that it would be nice if switching tabs per drag & drop would be
possible.

Best regards,
Peter