[Mageia-dev] Dolphin toolbar default settings in mga2 alpha

Sat Dec 3 15:52:31 CET 2011

On 2 December 2011 22:42, Barry Jackson <zen25000 at zen.co.uk> wrote:
+> On 02/12/11 16:41, Balcaen John wrote:
+>>
+>> Le vendredi 2 décembre 2011 14:56:45 Barry Jackson a écrit :
+>>>
+>>> Anyone else find the default settings in Dolphin after a clean Alpha1
+>>> installation utterly useless?
+>>> It's not even possible to easily navigate a file system without UP and
+>>> BACK buttons.
+>>> For new users I think the toolbar should have all the regularly needed
+>>> buttons in place "out of the box".
+>>> I tried to figure out where these are stored and in which package, but
+>>> after half an hour I gave up :\
+>>
+>> If i'm not wrong there's some changes regarding dolphin's configuration,
+>> it was
+>> already reported to me last week.
+>>
+>> I'll be able to work again on kde's configuration soon (i was quite buzy)
+>>
+>
+> Good that's excellent.
+>
+> May I suggest a basic default toolbar?
+>
+> HOME,BACK,FORWARDS,UP,RELOAD,FIND,SPLIT,Show Hidden Files
+
+I would add PREVIEW to that list.
+
+>
+> I see no reason to add anything that is in the context menu.
+>
+> Also:-
+> May I suggest that the icon view is NOT the default and that the details
+> view be made default. I really can't imagine that anyone who uses dolphin
+> for anything serious would use the icon view, as long filenames get
+> truncated. It gets quite tedious changing it for both root and normal user
+> on each fresh installation.
+
+Also, having details view, can we enable the little drop down arrows
+by default too.
+
+For icon mode, changing from 2 lines for the filename to 1 would be nice too.
+>
+> Just my 2 cents ;)
+>
+> Barry
+
+Addig the information panal back would be good as well.
+
+I may have got a little carried away here...
+