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File dialog (and manager) context menus
by Duncan on Saturday 24/Mar/2007, @16:25

This is one of the few things I've found myself missing from MSWormOS (which as you can tell I don't miss very much!). Not just renaming, but fully working context menus (delete, run, move, rename, specific file-type sensitive actions like extract, etc), both within the file dialog, and within Konqueror itself, when clicking on the directory one is actually /in/ (as opposed to something in it).

Back on MSWormOS, one "power user" trick I used to use /very/ frequently, was popping up the Open/Run dialog, then hitting the browse button, and using what was in effect a mini-file-manager-app. This was faster and easier than opening up a full Explorer (or alternate file manager), just to view or alter some facet of a file or directory (name, attributes, maybe just get a graphical dir listing complete with icons) somewhere, or even move or open/run it, not from the run dialog, but directly from the fully functional context menu directly in the file dialog.

This doesn't seem to work in KDE (3), but I'd sure like it to. =8^)

Similarly, when I right-click on a blank spot in a Konqueror dir listing, I expect to see the context menu for the dir itself, NOT some item that happens to be selected, possibly by default as the first item in the listing, even if it's not even displayed because it is scrolled out of the display window somewhere. If I want the context menu for an item, I will right click on it, using shift and ctrl if necessary to get the menu for a compound selection. If I simply right-click on a blank space in the listing, that's NOT clicking on an icon, but on the displayed directory itself, so that's the context menu I want, NOT the one for some icon that might not even be on screen!

Of course, I'm only using KDE because it's the desktop that already best meets my needs for power and customizability, so these complaints are only in the interest of making the best even better, but I still hope the functionality can make it into KDE 4. =8^)

Duncan

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