Bug 157954

Summary:	Back and Forward do not work as expected
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Frederik Schwarzer <schwarzer>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Frederik Schwarzer 2008-02-17 05:19:31 UTC

Version:           1.0.1 (using KDE 4.0.1)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

If I enter a folder, press "Back" and then enter another folder,
the "Forward" button leads back to the first folder.
This is, well... I do know what to think about that behaviour.
Maybe it's quite nice if you know how to deal with it. The
problem though might be, that users are used to the way those
buttons work in web browsers. Going back and clicking another link
enters a new history path where now "future point" is available.

Is this this way on purpose?

Comment 1 Peter Penz 2008-02-17 13:29:49 UTC

I implemented the current behavior on purpose, but was not aware that this is inconsistent with the behavior in browsers. I agree that people are familiar with the browser behavior and Dolphin should stay consistent -> I'll fix this.

Comment 2 Peter Penz 2008-02-23 15:09:05 UTC

SVN commit 778359 by ppenz:

The "Back" and "Forward" buttons of Dolphin should stay consistent with the history behavior of Konqueror and Firefox: When setting an URL in the middle of the history, start a new history tree.

BUG: 157954

 M  +17 -16    kurlnavigator.cpp  
 M  +7 -3      kurlnavigator.h  
 M  +67 -1     tests/kurlnavigatortest.cpp  
 M  +4 -1      tests/kurlnavigatortest.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=778359