Bug 268964

I do the same thing.  I agree this would be very nice.

Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719

*** Bug 305600 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 313770 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I'm another one in the club: please implement this (silly?) function soon! Almost 2 years have passed since Todd reported that function request! Just to have an idea: what should be done in order to add this function to the right click?
Thanks.

I guess it needs to be added to [kde-baseapps] dolphin/src/dolphinpart.cpp

(In reply to comment #5)
> Almost 2 years have passed since Todd reported that function request!

I'm always amazed when I see that some people seem to think that every feature request will be automatically implemented as soon as a few people agree that the feature would be nice.

What needs to be done is:

1) Someone has to volunteer to write the code. All Dolphin development is done by a few volunteers with little spare time, and implementing a feature and testing it properly, even if it looks extremely trivial to the user, is usually a lot of work.

2) Even more important: every new entry makes the menu more complicated and harder to use. Therefore, there should be a very good reason why a new menu entry is needed before considering to add it. Anyone who would be willing to implement this should get in touch with the KDE usability people before and discuss the issue with them. However, considering that there is a rather low number of reports and only a single vote for this feature, I doubt that they would consider the feature important enough.

(In reply to comment #7)

With all due respect, we are not talking about "please add make me a sandwich feature", we're talking about fricking basic essential feature of file browser!

about 2)
Bul***t! Without any fuss Boom! there is Activity cluttering menu entry which nobody uses but we can't get "sort by" in context menu even though people are asking for it in years! And don't get me started on so called "usability team", with years I've learned there is no central team that guide developers about usability. Developers implement features in way they like. And no offense but developers knows nothing about layout and usability. In many cases they don't think about KDE as a whole, just about their application. If you don't believe me, explain to me please why in hell we've got different shortcuts to same feature across default KDE apps?! And I reported bug about it... And design team also doesn't exist. Some GUI solutions made by KDE developers are so f***in ugly that nobody sane would approve them (there are bug reports about it too no only mine). 

And yeah this is FLOSS and people are working in their spare time and yeah we are grateful but if developers don't listen their users what's the point of doing code public? Either you do it for greater good or keep it in your basement and use it just how you want it.

Why there is no "context menu editor"? Everyone would be happy!

(In reply to comment #8)
> With all due respect, we are not talking about "please add make me a
> sandwich feature", we're talking about fricking basic essential feature of
> file browser!

Right, a feature which is so essential that it got a single vote.

> Bul***t! Without any fuss Boom! there is Activity cluttering menu entry
> which nobody uses

Please complain to the Activities people about that. I don't like this entry either, but they chose to display it by default via a mechanism that permits applications to add entries to the context menu (but you can easily remove it in the settings dialog, "Services" section).

> but we can't get "sort by" in context menu even though
> people are asking for it in years! 

Again, an extremely small number of people has asked for it and added a single vote to the report. Just go through the other wishlist reports for Dolphin. There are hundreds of them, many with considerably more votes, which are not implemented either.

> Why there is no "context menu editor"? Everyone would be happy!

If you think that this would be an easy solution, please start working on it and submit a patch.

BTW, you seem to imply that I do not care about users. Actually, I think that this is not the case, but if all the time that I spend working with others to fix user-reported bugs in Dolphin, debugging issues in kdelibs (a few hours this week, just because a user reported a bug in Dolphin) and giving feedback in bug reports, even if some people seem to forget that we have http://www.kde.org/code-of-conduct/, is not enough for you, then I wonder why you still use Dolphin at all.

(In reply to comment #9)
> Right, a feature which is so essential that it got a single vote.

Right, as if those votes meant anything before. Besides there is one vote but couple people actually wrote a comment here.

> Please complain to the Activities people about that. I don't like this entry
> either, but they chose to display it by default via a mechanism that permits
> applications to add entries to the context menu (but you can easily remove
> it in the settings dialog, "Services" section).

Nice tip, thanks.

> BTW, you seem to imply that I do not care about users. Actually, I think
> that this is not the case, but if all the time that I spend working with
> others to fix user-reported bugs in Dolphin, debugging issues in kdelibs (a
> few hours this week, just because a user reported a bug in Dolphin) and
> giving feedback in bug reports, even if some people seem to forget that we
> have http://www.kde.org/code-of-conduct/, is not enough for you, then I
> wonder why you still use Dolphin at all.

Actually no, it wasn't personal and in general I admire many/most/all people here because you do amazing work but sometimes I get a little bit pissed about small things that nowhere else would be possible but in the FLOSS world just because dick called "project manager" wouldn't approve things that could piss off customers. But even then it's not personal.

This features was added a while back.