https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405620
Bug ID: 405620
Summary: Move 'Safely Remove' down in Places popup menu
Product: dolphin
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: panels: places
Assignee: dolphin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: cf...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Used to using multiple Dolphin windows, I usually right-click a icon in places
panel and select "Open in New Window". Luckily, this is always the first entry,
except for external devices, where (when they are unmounted), it is replaced by
the "Mount" entry. This makes some sense, because when I want to open it, I
maybe should mount it first (but maybe Dolphin could figure that out
automatically; anyway, this is not what this wish is about).
The other case where "Open in New Window" is not the first entry is for mounted
external devices. There it is replaced by the "Safely Remove". Considering that
the first menu item can (and is) often unintendently exectuted (see
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-6632) but that bug is closed as
"intended", we shouldn't have potentionally destructive operations as the first
item in a popup menu. I suggest to move it down.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. have an external mechanical disk mounted and powered
2. try to open it in a new window by quickly selecting "Open in New Window" in
its popup menu
3. but accidentely move the mouse a bit towards the menu while clicking RMB,
causing the menu to immediately close and execute its first item unintendently.
OBSERVED RESULT
cringe because you didn't expect the abrupt power down of the disk and fear
that any uneeded power-up/-down cycle dimunishes the lifetime of the disk
EXPECTED RESULT
The "Open in New Window" is still the first item, as it is with all other
places icons.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Dolphin master, KF5 master, Qt 5.12.2
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