Bug 408489

Summary:	[Copy to/Move to service] Cascading menu structure fills the whole screen when viewing large numbers of folders
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Emanuele <emanu.d3b>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	aspotashev, bugseforuns, elvis.angelaccio, nate, postix
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	19.04.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Emanuele 2019-06-09 16:46:40 UTC

SUMMARY

When I select a file and want to copy or move it, if I browse through the folders and there are many sub-folders, especially with long character names, it happens that this long list replaces the screen and you can't select anything.
I put videos to show the problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwgRa4FNGyc

With nautilus the problem is not there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxjdWMU1TN4

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-06-09 18:44:00 UTC

This is specifically about the cascading menu structure that shows the filesystem hierarchy accessed from Context menu > Move or Copy. The menu becomes overwhelming and unusable once you navigate anywhere with a lot of folders. Even beside that, the deeper your folder hierarchy, the more of the screen it takes up.

What Nautilus does instead is to immediately open a file dialog and allow you to select the location there. Gwenview does the same thing for its Move to.../Copy to... functionality, so there's some precedent.