Bug 234722 - Make Folders panel view sliding more usable and prettier to the eye.
Summary: Make Folders panel view sliding more usable and prettier to the eye.
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: panels: folders (show other bugs)
Version: 16.12.2
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
URL:
Keywords: usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-04-18 17:00 UTC by Mad Fish
Modified: 2018-04-16 04:42 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Screenshot of Dolphin 17.12.3's folder panel. (132.38 KB, image/png)
2018-04-13 15:16 UTC, Niels van Mourik
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Description Mad Fish 2010-04-18 17:00:05 UTC
Version:           1.4 (using 4.4.2 (KDE 4.4.2), Arch Linux)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.33-ARCH

When you navigate in Folders panel, it tries to adjust scrollbar positions to show as much as possible. It's great, but I think that it can be improved.

Idea is to slide view to fit item that is currently under cursor (highlighted), because that item is what user wants to see now. With current implementation user has to click on it for that.
Comment 1 FiNeX 2010-08-01 15:59:07 UTC
IMHO the current behaviour is the right one: when an user click on a folder, it is correct to display both the selected folder and the parent.
Comment 2 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:18:38 UTC
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Comment 3 Niels van Mourik 2018-04-13 15:16:21 UTC
Created attachment 112005 [details]
Screenshot of Dolphin 17.12.3's folder panel.
Comment 4 Niels van Mourik 2018-04-13 15:19:56 UTC
Please see this attachment:
https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=112005

It illustrates what happens in practice, when the "Folders" panel traverses some path deeply, a horizontal scrollbar shows up. Not only is this vertical scrollbar a total eyesore, in my opinion it should automatically jump to the right and even be invisible.

Proposal:
- Hide the horizontal scrollbar by default.
- Automatically jump the scrollpane's position when it overflows.
- Potentially add a opt-out right-menu option to show it.