Bug 391094

Summary: Dolphins default settings are unusable for most users
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: 白川間瀬流 <vamp898-kde>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: elvis.angelaccio, kde
Priority: NOR Flags: kde: Usability?
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description 白川間瀬流 2018-02-26 11:16:50 UTC 
Roughly 30% of the users i work with have used other Linux Desktops in the past (mostly GNOME and XFCE) and 70% of the users i have to work with have used Windows before.

And there is a major annoyance almost everyone come to me with.

Dolphins default settings are just unusable. The icons are tiny (especially with todays screen resolutions) and there are now previews enabled.

But the biggest problem is, that setting is for every folder!

So the user changes it, goes to a different folder and dolphin is unusable again.

That always causes big frustrations amongst the users because they think they do it wrong and come to the conclusion, i quote, "Sometimes it works setting it, sometimes not, i never know when it works and when not and every folder i go into looks different".

Also single-click is a very big issue, almost every user here hits into the issue that single-click opens the file. Especially on notebooks with touchpads thats a very big issue.

As almost all other file manager handles this different, i recommend the following settings:

- Double Click to open files
- All folders use the same settings
- Bigger icons per default
- Preview enabled per default
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2018-02-26 11:20:44 UTC 
> - Double Click to open files

No.

> - All folders use the same settings

Even I as an expert user don't really use it, I have separate settings for Home but everything else is the same, so +1 on that. If needed, a user can still change that.

> - Bigger icons per default

I do that, too, (I prefer 96px or even bigger) but with high dpi scaling it shouldn't really matter

> - Preview enabled per default

+1, there was a change recently to enable all preview plugins by default, so I think it makes sense to have previews enabled by default also.
Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2018-02-26 11:25:19 UTC 
I just checked Dolphin code, previews should be enabled by default already.
Comment 3 白川間瀬流 2018-02-26 11:48:54 UTC 
This issue does not only hit dolphon, its a bigger scope