If you could change something about Dolphin, a feature, a fix, what would it be?
Unless you have something specific in mind do not make threads like yours. Just askling for bad ideas. In the last two day I’ve seen suggestions for Dolphin here and on another forum that would actually be regression.
- true split view
- embed okular in the side panel / quickview
- icons don’t update and get stuck on dark when you switch from light > dark > light.
- scripts in buttons
- script folder like in nautilus
- most of the features of Directory Opus.
- fix all the KIO / FUSE bugs
- gestures for forward / back
- konsole can get a variable containg selected files
- markdown preview
- html preview ( you can get this with konquerer but it’s weird and slow)
- option to disable selection mode
- powerful recursive search with no regex for people who are not programmers. vscode has a nice search.
- integrate recoll
- store different views
- xbel bookmarks / places manager switchable via activities or dbus
- split panes like Konsole
- card view, like you get in email apps.
- hard link support. every file everywhere, all at once.
- change that weird “selected not selected” thing back, so I double click a file, and it remains selected
- tree view bookmarks that let you bookmark files. using hardlinks, so I can move them around.
- navihedron view
- themable from dolphin ( support .qss theme switching).
- miller columns! lol. you love them.
- carousel view. yes! like in finder and 00s Flash websites. cosmic files uses this for it’s quickview type thing. it’s good.
- are you feeling lucky? button that opens a random file.
- this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awBe11Em4p8
- some kind of graph view
- the new rename tool is fantastic btw. really really good.
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Some genuinely good ideas, having Okular as maybe a quick action of sorts in Dolphin, could have some real potential. Markdown preview, that’s a feature that would be used a lot, I think. The “Are you feeling lucky? button” is a bit questionable, would be funny for April fools though lol. Do you think you could clarify on what you mean by true split view though?
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Perhaps I should make it more clear and say that I’m asking for genuine improvements like, quick actions that integrate different kde applications further with dolphin. The option to have the main toolbar alongside the places sidebar instead of on top of it or beneath it when you it set to top or bottom of the file explorer.
Rightclick > mount/unmount
support for
- cue/bin
- nrg
- dmg
- img
- …
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That would certainly be helpful, being able to unmount and mount these types of disc images would be good for both convenience and resource management, I think.
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just two sets of tabbed views really, like old school dual view file managers.
also 
- Group view like in Windows File Manager, i.e organise by type, date etc.
- Flat view from DOpus is great. You select “Flat view” and it collapses all the sub folders into a single view.
- building a search like finder, with a sequence of “modules”.
you can go on and on. so many concepts out there.
it’s fantastic as it is, easily the most comprehesive and stable file manager on linux, that poor gnome thing gets sadder with every release.
hopefully the next few years will see a surge in funding from EU as they seek indepedence from the US regime.
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That would be helpful, certainly more intuitive for new and existing users.
For anyone wondering why I ask for feature/bug fix suggestions, I am looking into possibly modifying the dolphin application myself. Though I still have a long way to go in learning how to do the programming, it is something I am trying out.
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yes get on it. I can’t program much but I’ve made a few interface edits that improve my use of dolphin. very easy to build it.
Do you have any recommendations on a feature that I should attempt to add first, perhaps one that’d be easy to add compared to others?
As a very basic user who nonetheless lives in the file manager, I approve this idea. More generally this could be an “open in side panel” for whatever your Open Withs may be. This could even be “Open Konsole Here”.
I would also like to have parent directory visible in the file pane (if this is possible, I haven’t found it), so I can click that to go up instead of having to mess with the address bar, which is never in the mode I need it at the moment. (I’m sure it sees me coming with the mouse and makes sure of this.)
And for that side panel… Does there exist anything like Vern Buerg’s LIST ?? or QuickViewPlus? The idea being to be able to raw-view any file (including binaries). I miss this so much.
Well, seeing as I’m attempting to make my own additions to Dolphin, this will be something I look into. Appreciate the ideas.
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Seems like a lot of good ideas coming up. Perhaps someday your additions will be official!
I will certainly try, they have instructions on the requirements to push something to the official dolphin build on github for people who want to contribute, I’ve already began taking the steps to do so.
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Awesome! Hope it all goes well.
Configurable delay before displaying the tool tip; it’s really too short since too long.
Do you think this would go in an advanced animations control page within the system settings, or would it do better just inside the dolphin settings? I ask this because tool tips are everywhere in the system, not just dolphin.
The problem affects dolphin’s usability, so I would say in dolphin only.
Going deeper, the delay is not the fundamental issue, but rather the covering of the item triggering the tooltip. If the item is in the lower part of the screen, the tooltip strives to show itself fully even if it covers the item on which an action was going to be performed (left click, right click…). It should cover the item only if its size cannot fit otherwise on screen.
In addition to preserving the usability of the item when the mouse cursor is over it, specifying a custom delay in dolphin may be useful too.