From kfm-devel  Fri Jul 06 15:43:48 2007
From: Adam Treat <treat () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:43:48 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: Dolphin with tabs
Message-Id: <200707061143.48907.treat () kde ! org>
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On Friday 06 July 2007, Kimberly Lazarski wrote:
> > there are such things as "design decisions". the question here is: what
> > is the benefit of tabs in a file manager? what is the use case target for
> > dolpin? do the two answers there overlap?
>
> IMHO, tabbed file management is amazingly powerful. I use konqueror as a
> file manager primarily, and only very rarely as a web browser. I'd like
> the left tree to be improved so that it can display hidden directories,
> and to optionally switch focus in the tree when I switch tabs, but aside
> from those nits I think that konqueror is as close as anything comes to
> being the perfect file manager. I can have multiple directories open in
> multiple tabs, and if I am doing something which requires side-by-side
> viewing of directories, I can split the view. I can open a shell prompt
> right in that directory and run scripts on the current working
> directory.

We get that you like Konq.  Which is good!  But you've yet to answer Aaron's 
one simple question.

1.  What is the use case for tabs in a file manager?

Answer that and we can look at the rest of the questions.

Adam