James Tyrer posted on Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:05:50 -0700 as excerpted: > Is there any way to get rid of those circled "+" & "-" signs in a Folder > View. It is very easy in Konqueror: just uncheck the box: "File > Management -> General -> Show selection marker" > > I perceive this as more of the Plasma hubris. They don't think that > anyone wouldn't want this great feature. However with small icons on a > small screen it makes it DAMN hard to click on an icon without hitting > the Selection Marker instead. I also do not see why I would want to > select a '*.desktop" file' when I am trying to open an application by > clicking the icon on the DeskTop Folder View. > > That other marker to display a really tiny view of the directory isn't a > good idea either. The center mouse button appears to be available and > would be much better. That tiny view of the directory should really be > larger. A stripped down version (features not needed for this use > removed) of the KDE File Selector would be much better (but it wouldn't > be Plasma, then, would it -- ARGH!).
This doesn't deal with folderview directly, but is an alternate suggestion. Especially for small screens, the QuickAccess plasmoid from kdelook is a very useful substitute for folderview. Basically, it's a single icon that when clicked pops up a "menu view" of the folder you have it pointed at. If you click on a directory it opens a submenu, or there's a button at the top that will open the directory itself, in whatever is configured as the kde filemanager. And unlike the folderview directory browser popup, the quick-view "menu" is actually a window that can be drag-resized. There's actually a number of different quick-access plasmoids on kdelook, the original, plus at least two slight variants by other people. Here's the one Gentoo (and thus I) is(/am) using: HOMEPAGE="http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=134442"; -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
