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Re: It's not about features, it is the quality!
by Peter Penz on Sunday 17/Feb/2008, @04:57

> Dolphin is not as much polished as it should be: It does not recognize
> if your left or right pane is active (and suddenly you delete
> the wrong files!)

I cannot reproduce this. Could you please submit a bug-report how to reproduce this (or mail me directly)? Thanks!

> I could not figure out how to use the mouse in combination with
> the keyboard (mouse selection does not work at all, hitting a file
> always opens it etc.)

I'd also need more details about what you mean so that we can fix this. We improved already some minor things in Dolphin for KDE 4.1 (selection area of items is optimized to the real size, selection toggle is available for the single click mode etc.), but to solve such issues we first have to be aware about that there is an issue and need feedback from users. It's OK to post things like this on the dot, but it would be more productive having a detailed issue description in bugs.kde.org ;-)

> and a pane with "actions", not only "information" is required
> (at least as it is hard to get into the context menu for the
> current directory as now).

Why is it hard getting a context menu for the current directory? If it is because of the small viewport area: this has been fixed for KDE 4.1.

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Thanks for replying
by Sebastian on Sunday 17/Feb/2008, @08:03

Most of the issues are probably regarded to the viewport. But two things are not:

(1) Is there a way to select a single way be using the mouse?
(2) When using the keyboard (tab key) to switch panes (I used this after failing using the mouse) I found it 1st a little sad that I had to enter "tab" several times and that the tab key got caught by the QTExtEdit in the information panel. Second, if activating the left pane by using the tab key, the rectangle around the left pane becomes blue. But all actions on the toolbar and in the menu still refer to the other pane.

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Re: Thanks for replying
by Peter Penz on Sunday 17/Feb/2008, @08:29

> (1) Is there a way to select a single way be using the mouse?

Do you mean selecting files in the single-click mode? There is a solution for this in Dolphin for KDE 4.1: a kind of "selection toggle" is blended in "plasma-like" above the item. If you don't have meant this: clicking the mouse on the viewport selects the active view in the split-view mode.

Regarding the tab issue: I was not aware about this and have added this point to my TODO-list.

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Re: Thanks for replying
by Sebastian on Sunday 17/Feb/2008, @08:51

I am fully satisfied, thanks :)

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Re: It's not about features, it is the quality!
by fredde on Sunday 17/Feb/2008, @18:05

Something that's bugging me with dolphin in 4.1 is when selecting a group of files and pressing down ctrl to select another group of files, the first group gets deselected ...i can workaround this by selecting only one file holding ctrl and then using the rubberband selection again :)

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Re: It's not about features, it is the quality!
by Peter Penz on Monday 18/Feb/2008, @00:00

This is a Qt-issue. I have not verified yet whether it still happens with Qt4.4, but will check it...

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Re: It's not about features, it is the quality!
by fredde on Monday 18/Feb/2008, @02:54

Ok, and yes, i'm using Qt 4.4 0214 :)

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Re: It's not about features, it is the quality!
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @09:31

I've noticed this problem in kubuntu+kde4.0

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