Version: 3.1.94 (using KDE 3.1.94 (3.2 Beta 2), Gentoo) Compiler: gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r3, propolice) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-gentoo-r2-1 Konqueror in KDE 3.1 had a neat feature whereby you could right-click a directory (in the navigation panel or main views) and at the top of the resulting pop-up menu was an option to create a new directory inside that directory. KDE 3.2b2 doesn't have this, and it makes things inconvenient. It is expecially annoying when using the Tree View to view/manage many directories and subdirectories in one Konqueror tab at once. Without this feature it is impossible to create a new directory in a subdirectory without undergoing several steps (e.g. making a directory in the 'root' of that view and then manually dragging it to the subdirectory). By making such a simple task unnecessarily difficult, it negates much of the usefulness of the Tree View, which I am sure is quite popular among power users. Bug #26345 covers similar ground, but was submitted in the KDE1-KDE2 period. I can suggest three possible solutions. The first would be to restore the "Create new directory" menu option as it existed in KDE 3.1. The second involves placing such an option in a submenu, like the "Create New" submenu that is available when you right-click a blank area in an Icon View. The Actions menu is another possible location. The third solution involves altering the "Create Directory" key binding to create a new directory in the selected directory instead of the current directory. Alternatively, one could have the function only work in this manner in the Tree View, or have a "Create Directory in Selected Directory" action available separately.
Further investgation has revealed that the problem is different from what it first seemed to be. I normally start Konqueror with a saved view profile ("kfmclient openProfile <profile>") that contains two tabs, each showing a different directory in Tree View. When I right-click on any directory in those tabs, I get all the usual options except for "Create Folder". However, that option is present in any new tabs that I open. In other words, the option to create a new directory is not, as I had initially declared, missing from Konqueror. Tabs restored from a saved View Profile do not have this option, but newly created tabs do.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69558 ***
Sorry, but I don't think this is an exact duplicate of Bug 69558. I am talking about the right-click menu for a directory, not for the tab background. As an experiment, I changed the view in the (View Profile) restored tabs to an Icon View. the right-click menu for the tab background contains the "Create New" option (as it should), but the right-click menu for a directory still does not show "Create Folder". To reproduce: 1. Start a new Konqueror session with the Navigation Panel set to the Home Directory 2. Open a couple of tabs at different directories. I use Tree View but it should also work for an Icon View. 3. Use the "Settings" -> "Configure View Profiles" menu option to save the settings of that window. I also save URLs and window size. 4. Once saved, close Konqueror. 5. Open Konqueror again, but this time invoking the saved View Profile: "kfmclient openProfile <profile>" 6. Without doing anything else, right-click on a directory in one of the restored tabs. The "Create Folder" option will not be there. 7. Open a new tab and right-click a directory in that view. "Create Folder" will be there.
I have 3.2beta2 here, and I never see a "Create Folder" item when right-clicking a directory, even in the new tab that the reporter suggested. I do get the "Create new..." submenu when right-clicking on the background (in all views/tabs).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67639 ***
I can't 100% confirm whether this is really a duplicate of Bug 67639, since I'm not sure if I fully understand what the reporter of that bug is trying to say. What I can say, however, is that the bug I have reported here appears to be fixed in KDE 3.2 (on Gentoo).