Yes, I know: you can either right-click on free space and choose ‘New Entry’ > ‘Folder’, or press CTRL+SHIFT+N. However, right-clicking on a file does not give you this option. I find this counterintuitive.
Even worse, when I right-click on a folder, I can choose ‘New entry’ > ‘Folder’. But it doesn’t work. I would expect Dolphin to create a new subfolder. Ctrl+Shift+N creates a folder at the same level as the chosen folder, but not a subfolder.
I am on Dolphin 25.08.0 / KDE Frameworks 6.17.0 / Manjaro Wayland.
Yes, I know: you can either right-click on free space and choose ‘New Entry’ > ‘Folder’, or press CTRL+SHIFT+N. However, right-clicking on a file does not give you this option. I find this counterintuitive.
Why? If you right-click on a file, it will give you a contextual menu pertaining to that file. Contextual menus are that: menus that pertain to the current context. You cannot create folders within in files, so the option to do so is not there.
Even worse, when I right-click on a folder, I can choose ‘New entry’ > ‘Folder’. But it doesn’t work. I would expect Dolphin to create a new subfolder. Ctrl+Shift+N creates a folder at the same level as the chosen folder, but not a subfolder.
Again why do you expect that? You have selected a folder, you can create subfolders within folders, so the contextual menu (i.e., the menu relevant to your current context of having selected a folder) will give you that option.
Edit: My apologies, I misunderstood. You may be seeing a bug in the second case. In version 25.08.1 on Arch it works as expected.
I can replicate this on my system. Right click on a folder and do “Create new … Folder” and nothing happens. No error message, and nothing logged when running Dolphin from the terminal.
I can also replicate this.
My setup:
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Ah, that’s quite possible - sorry. It’s slightly janky because it creates the new ‘container’ folder with the name ‘newfolder’ too.
So yes, OP - look at that post and check out that new entry to the service menu, it’s a good one.
I generally use that when I’m doing something like tidying up a huge folder, or sorting config files out when I have a bug to track down (i.e. select half the contents, then move those all to a new folder, log out/log in again to test).
What I couldn’t do is click to select a file, then use ‘New Folder’ to create a new folder inside that, the new folder (Ctrl_Shift_N) just appears next to it, so no different to clicking the dolphin background.