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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Dolphin: split views
From:       Jacob Beauregard <jake13jake () comcast ! net>
Date:       2007-08-13 3:18:27
Message-ID: 46BFCD83.1000808 () comcast ! net
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I have a suggestion on this. Why not instead of split/join, have just 
split, and have split stay pressed when in split browsing, and clicking 
it again unpresses it.

Since we're on the topic of Dolphin, I think an interesting feature 
would be recursively flattening out all of the subfolders within a 
folder. You know how you sometimes have that music collection that's 
organized in a folder structure as artist/album? Such a feature would 
allow you to scan the entire contents of a library folder without the 
need to enter in and out of folders. It might also be good to replace 
filename with sub1/sub2/sub.../filename in such a situation.

Peter Penz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Dolphin offers to split the current view by pressing the "Split" button in the 
> toolbar (see http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de/temp/dolphin1.png). Afterwards the 
> view is split and the button toggles to a "Join" button (see 
> http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de/temp/dolphin2.png).
>
> I think/hope it is obvious if the button "Join" is pressed now, that the right 
> inactive view gets closed.
>
> Now my main question: when a mouse click into the right view is done, this 
> view gets active which results in 
> http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de/temp/dolphin3.png. What is the expected behavior 
> when pressing the "Join" button in this case?
>
> Currently I see the following possibilities (but maybe I miss alternative 
> ones):
>
> Solution A:
> The "Join"-button indicates that always the right view gets closed, hence this 
> view should get closed and the left view gets active again. This is the 
> current behavior in Dolphin for KDE 4. As a side note: it's possible to flip 
> both views by the context menu.
>
> Solution B:
> Always the inactive view gets closed. This is the behavior in Dolphin for KDE 
> 3. Problem: the icon in this case is wrong. Would it be a possible solution 
> to have 2 versions of the "Join" icon, which changes dynamically if the 
> active view gets changed?
>
> >From my gut feeling I would go for solution B, which means that we would need 
> a second version of the "Join" icon. Any objections or suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
> Peter
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