Bug 156495

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

The "breadcrumbs" feature in dolphin (I think that is the right name), where you are able to click the triangle next to a directory in the address bar to see all subdirectories of that directory is extremely useful and really speeds up navigation.  However, it does not work with drag and dropping files.  If you drag a file to a directory in the address bar you are able to drop it into that directory, which is useful for moving a file to a higher directory.  However, it should be at least an option that if you drag a file over the triangle between two directories and hold it there for a moment the breadcrumb menu should pop up and allow you drop the file in any subdirectory appearing there.  

For instance if you have four folders in your home directory, A, B, C, and D, you could enter directory A, select a bunch of files, drag them to the triangle between Home and A, and hold the mouse there for a half-second or so.  You would then get a popup menu with four item: A, B, C, and D.  You could then drop the files into any of those directories by dragging the files over that folder's entry in the menu.  Currently you can do that by cut and paste, the folders pane, a split window, two windows, or places.  Each has disadvantages.  Cut and paste is tedious for distributing files amongst various folders because you must either move them first to a higher folder, or navigate to each destination folder and then back before you can move to another destination.  The folders pane is not open by default, must be set to be visible, and takes a lot of space.  A split window must first be opened can only have two windows open at a time so distributing files amongst multiple folders is difficult.  And finally multiple windows take up even more space than the folders pane, must be opened individually, must all be navigated to, and you must move back and forth between open windows.  

Dragging and dropping right into the breadcrumbs has the limitation that it can only move files to directories that are subdirectories of a folder that is already in address bar, but has the advantage that it requires nothing that isn't already there and doesn't require that you leave the folder you are already in.  So in a certain subset of cases it is extremely useful.  Of course this limitation could be avoided entirely by having you able to navigate into subdirectories of directories that appear in the breadcrumb menu tree-style, but that would add additional complexity.