Does it care at all if there is a (potential) regression? Just an example from somewhere else: On a multiplayer game there was a new feature implemented, which caused issues for many people. The issue itself was fixed in once week (no bug, just not as easy to handle as it should be). That fix introduced an actual bug where most people are not (much) affected, except me, because my player character relies very heavily on a feature and setup which triggers the bug very often. I didn’t play that game for over a month now, because it is unplayable for me, but it seems I’m a minority here, so no fix is incoming, so I’m unable to use it.
It feels super awful to know that a loved feature is changed and the whole experience is gone while nobody cares about, because only a minority has this issue. While I am on Plasma 6.3 and not affected yet, I am already affected by GNOMEs file manager regression and it seems KDE is following this direction (but also willing to look for a solution).
You’re not even affected since you usually do not use drag & drop functionalities and since you’re more a keyboard user. It is fine to tell that there are people who like the change, but you probably shouldn’t tell to ignore the critics, just because you’re not affected.
I’m also not affected, yet (Debian user), but I want to help to find a good solution for everyone, especially on a such central desktop element as file managers where nearly everyone relies on (except some terminal only users). It is something different if people have similar issues on system settings or Discovery which people only use a few times and usually in a not productive way compared to central elements as Dolphin where people work with.
@akselmo: Did you think about what happen if people using small symbols? The space even short names are using become larger and so the boxes in general become larger, too. This critics is not about me, but about design logic. While it is for sure an improvement with dynamical sized boxes, it heavily relies on the name-to-icon-size-ratio. Also folders where all names are long does not improve anything here. In addition it also looks not so nice to have different sized boxes (something I don’t care much about, but still..).
If there is not “one solution fits all”, isn’t it possible to make at least an option to ignore/pass through mouse input on the boxes with pass-through disabled by default? It is not just to drop files at the right spot, it is also to select multiple files. On GNOME I had/have the issue to drag files and folders around instead of marking them, because of the little space available. Especially on a touch screen device (where I use Phosh/GNOME). A later “improvement” was to make boxes bigger, so that 20-25% less folders can be displayed on the little device, which decreases quick navigation (they want support phones, so that is important).
I think there should be a way to please both groups of people in this specific case. I agree that not in every case it is required to please everyone, but some desktop elements should just work for everyone and file managers are a critical part of it. By the way, Dolphin was one of the strongest arguments to switch to Linux, even 10 years ago and that not because Windows has a bad one (in fact, their file manager is also good), but Dolphin just allows better productivity.
But also let you know that yes we do read these hehe
