| Summary: | Make Dolphin make extensive use of [keyboard's] SPACE BAR for browsing files like web browsers do for browsing pages and to launch KLook on selected file or directory. | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] dolphin | Reporter: | Martín Cigorraga <msx> |
| Component: | view-engine: general | Assignee: | Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 16.12.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Using tmux inside Dolphin's embedded Konsole. | ||
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719 There are some great ideas here, but we need one issue/idea per bug report. Reviving KLook is definitely on the priority list. Unfortunately it is maintainerless right now, but we are actively looking for new maintainers. |
Created attachment 73177 [details] Using tmux inside Dolphin's embedded Konsole. Hi! It would be awesome to have the same behaviour in Dolphin while browsing tons of files that I have in Chromium/Firefox while browsing webpages. Let me explain: when browsing webpages, specially those very long, I do extensive use of SPACE key / SHIFT + SPACE combination to move the webpage forward/backwards - it's light years easier and faster than dragging the scroll bar and going up or down and also, while it's true I can use the mouse scroll wheel -specially with the browser's addon Smooth Wheel wich replicates tablet's swipes- it is often easier to just press SPACE / SHIFT-SPACE to navigate forward/backwards any given website and as a bonus my wrist thanks it a lot! So, it would be wonderful to have this very same behaviour replicated in Dolphin, this way when I'm browsing a directory with thousands of files it's pretty quick and easy to scroll up and down: this functionality coupled with Dolphin's built-in smooth display mechanism to show files and directories -which is just gorgeous- would be incredible useful (and good looking). Regarding KLook functionality: the scrolling SPACE BAR feature I request should only activate when: 1. there's no file or folder explicitly selected. 2. the mouse arrow is on a blank spot and not over a file or directory 3. the mouse arrow is over the scroll bar. 4. the mouse arrow is over any other area of Dolphin window. This way every time a file or folder is selected (either by Control+Click, navigating files and folders through keyboard, just hovering mouse arrow over them, etc.) and we press the SPACE BAR a specific action should trigger: A. for files, we have a quick look of it (a small thumbnail if it's an image, a glimpse of it's content if it's a plain text file, a quick play if it's an audio or video file, etc.) B. for folders, we have a glimpse of it's contents Finally: by letting us use SPACE BAR / SHIFT SPACE to navigate files by pressing it on a blank spot inside Dolphin's navigation area or just any other area of Dolphin that isn't a file or a folder and by adding a quick preview of the selected file or directory, triggered by the same SPACE BAR, I think we will have a whole new world of usability. Just my 2 cents, Dolphin already rocks, thanks for that fine piece of software! (BTW, the attachment is totally offtopic, but it illustrates how Dolphin rocks: running tmux inside it's embedded Konsole rocks!!)