Bug 337639

Summary: The KDE file chooser should align the left of the view port to a column
Product: [Unmaintained] kfile Reporter: Christopher Yeleighton <giecrilj>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: cfeck, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.11.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Christopher Yeleighton 2014-07-20 17:55:10 UTC 
The KDE file chooser breaks items in the current directory into columns that span to the right and allows the operator to scroll the view horizontally.  I shall not comment on the fact that this layout is much less natural than the vertical layout; I only want to point out that the scroll position should always be adjusted so that the view port has a full column to the left.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
  1. Tell Konqueror to choose a file to open.
  2. Tell the chooser to navigate to a directory with lots of items, e.g. /tmp.
  3. Tell the chooser to scroll the view port to the left.
Actual Results:  
  1. Konqueror shows the file chooser to open.
  2. The chooser displays lots of items broken into vertical columns.
  3. The icons of the 1st column are invisible and the file names are cropped.

Expected Results:  
  3. Let the 1st column display item icons.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2014-07-21 00:22:14 UTC 
I do not understand it. Can you post screenshots/mockups of expected behavior? Note that you can switch the file dialog to vertical scrolling using the View > Detailed View in the dialog settings menu.

See also bug 86838.
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2014-07-21 00:32:04 UTC 
Reading comment #0 again, you actually want it to "snap" instead of scroll smoothly? That way you cannot scroll through a filename that is longer than the dialog is wide, and the jumping probably will look distracting.

Correct me if I am wrong.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-04-09 21:34:57 UTC 
In KF5, the default view is identical to Dolphin's Icons view, which has the labels under the icons and scrolls vertically.

I agree with Christoph that the requested change to labels-on-the-right mode would be weird and jarring.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2018-04-09 21:37:47 UTC 
> In KF5, the default view is identical to Dolphin's Icons view, which has the labels under the icons and scrolls vertically.

Never mind, that's not true! Nevertheless, it probably should be, per Bug 86838.