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

[Donald Stewart]

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...