i’m with you that a user will likely want to work with the newly created folder… otherwise why create it, right?
so this is option 2 from my previous post where the newly created folder is selected.
the problem i can see with that is the behavior (and hence the solution) need to be different depending on if the user is in details view vs one of the others.
in details, it should be straightforward enough to simply expand the tree to show the newly created folder and then mark it as selected (i’m not a developer, so i could be talking out my ass here).
but in compact or icon view that option doesn’t work… so what now?
option 2A) switch the dolphin PWD (the path at the top of dolphin) to the newly created folder…
- could be jarring for the user if they were not expecting it
- they they would be able to work directly in the newly created folder
option 2B) leave the selection at the parent folder and create the new folder as nested within
- forces user to navigate to it in order to work with it
- no visual indication that anything was actually created
i would prefer 2A, but would not want this solution applied to the details view in which means there would need to be two separate ways to handle new folder creation.
edit: now that i think of it there is another possibility
option 2C) only offer the ability to create a new folder in PWD
- one could still create a new folder using Ctrl+Shift+N
- but selection would be ignored and the context menu would not offer the option
don’t know if this would be messier or not.