Version: 0.8.2-r1 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5) Installed from: Gentoo Packages It'd be nice if Dolphin had background image feature as Konqueror does. It's the sole reason I'm not using Dolphin at the moment!
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Restore this feature, please, and add also a colored background as it was possible with konqueror 3.5. A white background is too much agressive.
If this feature will be implemented it should be considered this wish too: bug #59824 . Anyway I don't need this feature I like the default background: imho something different can only reduce the usability.
The other way round - it can increase usabilty: You could use different background colors for different types of usage of folders: light blue for job, light green for recreation and so on. Or when you have different projects you manage in different folders you could put the logo of the project as watermarked background and easily see which project you are working on now when you often switch between the project folders opened in tabs. There are a lot of possible scenarios and a lot of people out there that are heavily visually oriented.
At least that's the way I was working with directories in konqueror in KDE3... @ Comment #2 From Pierre Jarillon: You are not forced to use a white background, you can set the "global" backbround color for windows via systemsettings, e.g. I use a light blue. But the very disadvantage is, that you also have that color in other applications like e.g. konqueror browser when the website hasn't set a background color.
@Janet: about the konqueror background color when navigating when pages that you've pointed out in bug #148822, comment 5 , it has been reported too :-)
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(In reply to comment #3) > If this feature will be implemented it should be considered this wish too: bug > #59824 . > > Anyway I don't need this feature I like the default background: imho something > different can only reduce the usability. Nonsense! Then _you_ just use a plain background, why are you dictating your tastes to users? Is there a real reason to believe everyone in the world thinks "it's gonna reduce usability" other than you don't like it? I didn't think it reduced usability, and apparently neither did the Konqueror developers of KDE3. Also in bug #59284, you commented "this feature has been dropped in KDE 4 and it is not planned to be developed.". Is there a good reason for it?
@Rayne: no, I'm not dictating anything. Read carefully: I've wrote "IMHO"... it means that it is an opinion, not the way it have to. Anyway there is a simple reason which makes me think that an image would reduce the usability: if you have an image in the background you reduce the contrast, icons and lables will be less readable. So I suggest that this feature looks not useful for "usability". In this way developers could give to this task a lower priority (if them agree with my opinion). About my comment in the other bug, the mean of what I've wrote is exactly what I've wrote: I've described the current status: - the feature has been dropped in KDE4. Konqueror now uses dolphin for file navigation and dolphin developers didn't implemented this feature. Nothing more, nothing less. - currently it has not been planned (at least not publicly). Nothing more, nothing less.
I've voted for this bug because it has been annoying me since 4.0.0. This is the kind of feature that can please everyone. Users that want a bright white background can simply do nothing, while those of us who want to tone it down, or have a different color or pixmap for the background can do so in a configuration menu. Even just hand editing a .directory file is better than nothing.