https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388769
--- Comment #4 from Felix Ernst <felixer...@kde.org> --- (In reply to ThomasvonderElbe from comment #3) > > >When I open a folder in a new tab, I want to work within this folder right > > >away > > >in 98% of the cases. Today I need to open the new tab with the folder and > > >then > > >to click on the tab in order to bring the new tab into the foreground. The > > >new > > >tab should be immediately shown after choosing to open a folder in a new > > >tab. > > > > Interesting use cases. I agree that it makes some sense, I have just never > > encountered anyone having such a workflow. > > I am curious: How else could the "normal" workflow be (in the cases where > one opens a folder in a new tab)? ... Mine is exactly like edbe's: After I > opened it, I want to look inside. Why else would you open a new tab? Well, if it is only about looking inside one folder, then simply activating the folder (by left clicking or pressing Enter) would accomplish that. So opening tabs only ever makes sense for slightly more complex workflows. It is always about a user being interested in multiple folders, but not all of them immediately. So the current Dolphin default is to middle-click the folder one does not want to look at immediately, but open it in an inactive tab so it can be looked at later or be used for moving files between folders. This bug report on the other hand is about wanting to use middle-click (or Ctrl+Enter) to directly look at the tab, while the previous location is kept around in a tab to be looked at or used some time later. Here is an example of a workflow that seems way easier to me with Dolphin's current behaviour of opening inactive tabs by default: A user has a folder with all their music by their favourite artist (e.g. the Beatles). All the tracks are currently sorted in folders for each album. The user wants to put all the tracks in one folder on an usb stick because only then it gets correctly shuffled on their music player. They now go into the Beatles folder and open every album in a new inactive tab. They then go from one tab to the next, move all songs in it to another folder before closing said tab. Opening all folders for each music album in a tab would have been a lot more difficult if opening a tab would always move them away from the parent "Beatles" folder. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
