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Re: More configurable, maybe?
by Gabriel Gazzán on Saturday 03/Mar/2007, @07:19

Well, maybe you're not looking for them really.

I see one clear disadvantage, and it is that with the "breadwhatever" you totally lose the sense of where you're standing inside the directory tree. There's no single way in this paradigm to eyeball what other places are there in the directory structure to find what you're looking for (an image, text, whatever).

Let me say that I really dislike that paradigm and from my experience is something that is not by any means more usable than the tree structure, let alone that you're trying to change what 95% people already feel comfortable with as Richard stated.

If I was to ask something to Dolphin's developers as not to make this breadchunks the default way of looking at the file structure. Make them an option for people wanting to 'think different'. ;)

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Re: More configurable, maybe?
by infopipe on Saturday 03/Mar/2007, @07:57

> If I was to ask something to Dolphin's developers as not to make this breadchunks
> the default way of looking at the file structure. Make them an option for people
> wanting to 'think different'. ;)

Please, guys. Try dolphin before complaining about it. This is already an option.

And since yesterday dolphin in svn also has a treeview. It's not finished, but it is there. Added within 24h(!!) after all this complaining started.

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Re: More configurable, maybe?
by Gabriel Gazzán on Saturday 03/Mar/2007, @09:41

Fist of all, I can't try Dolphin, because I use Mandriva 2006 and don't have the chance to do it.
But I would like you to read more carefully before replying.

I said what I said, not because I believed there won't be a tree view in Dolphin, but because, as I understand, currently the breadcrumbs seem to be the default option and I clearly don't like that fact.
I hope I have made it clear this time.

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Re: More configurable, maybe?
by Sutoka on Saturday 03/Mar/2007, @11:25

How are breadcrumbs in the location bar worse than text in the location bar? With a single click the breadcrumbs will switch to the standard location bar as well. Also there is a KDE3 version of Dolphin which should work in Mandriva 2006 no problem.

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Re: More configurable, maybe?
by Gabriel Gazzán on Thursday 08/Mar/2007, @18:43

I don't mind having breadcrumbs in the location bar if I can have a tree view at the left side of the Dolphin window, but by all means I don't want to have it as a replacement for the tree view. This would be a step backwards.

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