Bug 291845

Summary:	Ctrl+L standard behaviour
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Pascal d'Hermilly <pascal>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	hr.denzler
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Pascal d'Hermilly 2012-01-18 10:37:08 UTC

Version:           2.0 (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

The behaviour of CTRL+L in Dolphin differantiates from the standard in other programs (e.g web browsers: rekonq,firefox,Chrome)
CTRL+L makes the location bar editable, but it does not select the text/address like in other programs.

I understand that F6 has this behaviour, but this behaviour is expected when using CTRL+L as well.

Since the features are very close, perhaps you could rationalize and merge the features into the F6 behaviour. It could be part of keeping Dolphin simple but powerfull.

By the way Peter, I love the way you lifted Dolphin in the 2.0 release. It is a quantum leap in niceness, usability and elegange.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
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OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.0.0-14-generic
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Peter Penz 2012-01-18 10:53:21 UTC

Thanks for the suggestion, I was not aware about the inconsistency. Probably the action "Replace Location" (F6) can be discarded then completely (and for backward compatibility we could define F6 as alternative shortcut for Ctrl+L). But I'd like to check the behavior of other apps first regarding F6.

Nice to hear that you like the improvements in Dolphin 2.0 ;-) We developers mostly get bug-reports only that tell us what is *not* working, so getting positive feedback is good for our motivation.

Comment 2 Hans-Rudi Denzler 2012-01-18 15:10:29 UTC

In firefox you probabely want to change URL when typing Ctrl+L.
In dolphin you maybe want to access a subdirectory or look for hidding ones typing '.'.

So the current inconsistency seems to be convenient like the 'house wine', sometimes Merlot, Chianti: cheap, but you get used to it...

Comment 3 Pascal d'Hermilly 2012-01-18 15:28:52 UTC

But changing url is exactly what I want to do when I press CTRL+L
For example, my workflow is CTRL+T , CTRL+L , ftp://.....

Changing to a subdirectory is much easier just by starting to write the name of the subdir.
Example: standing in /usr/lib (182 folders in my case). Just typing F will get me to the "Firefox" folder and I can press "enter" if I want to enter it.

Comment 4 Jekyll Wu 2012-08-10 14:55:44 UTC

See bug 183821 comment #12

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 183821 ***