Summary: | "Show hidden files" keyboard shortcut dysfunctional in all but Icon and MultiColumn View | ||
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Product: | [Applications] konqueror | Reporter: | munlinux |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | finex, osterfeld |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
munlinux
2006-05-18 22:22:03 UTC
The internal working of show hidden files is strange - in the KDE File Open dialog, F8 is used for show hidden files, and Crtl-h doesn't work. Works here when assigning Ctrl+h. Is there a shortcut clash? Check configure shortcuts and sort by shortcut. Sure enough, if I select "Tree View", "List view", "Detailed List View" or "Textview", and _for each of these separately_ set the hotkey, it starts working there. So, not really a bug. However, I would seriously like to question this behaviour - is it really intended behaviour that the user has to assign the same shortcut (apparently) five times? Should it be? One thing is certain, be that as it may. This behaviour is not at all obvious to the user. Now, I've noticed that the Konqueror UI is context-sensitive, and that it changes depending on whether we are file-browsing or HTML-browsing. But that it would change for all of the separate file-browsing views, that's a bit much. (I have noticed that it reasonably changes for at least the file size view.) To remedy the non-obviousness of this behaviour, at the very least the "Edit shortcuts" -menu should have a header that says "These only work for the current view". However, a much better approach, in my opinion, would be that the six basic file browsing views (Icon, MultiColumn, Tree, List, DetailedList, Text), maybe even the ImageView, for what it's used, would use the same basic shortcuts. In fact, why not even the FileSize view, even though it's not really necessary to implement all the functions, e.g. hiding the hidden files, for that view. Rob: I agree. Frank: Thanks for the suggestion, as you see it helped clarify the issue. There are no shortcut clashes. This has been solved in KDE4 because konqueror use the dolphin_part for manage files. Dolphin 4 use the same shortcut for all his view modes. |