Version: 1.2.1 with KDE 4.2.1 (using KDE 4.2.0) OS: Linux Installed from: Unspecified Linux Currently, when the split view is enabled, the split-pane button changes to a close-pane button. However, this button only allows to close the currently selected pane. Often, I need to close the unselected pane, which takes two clicks - one to switch the currently selected pane, and one to close it. Instead, I propose that there be two close buttons, one to close the current pane and one to close the unselected pane. Mockup in glorious ASCII-vision! -------------------------------- Currently: S P L I T C L O S E ------------- ------------- | | | | | | | | + | => | X | | | | | | | | ------------- ------------- Proposed: One implementation (seems the easier one...) S P L I T C L O S E ------------- ------------- | | | | | | | | + | => | X | | V <-- A dropdown option to choose which pane to close | | | | | | ------------- ------------- Another implementation (maybe a little trickier...) S P L I T C L O S E ------------- ------------- ------------- | | | | | | | | | | | + | => | X | | | | X | (two close buttons appear instead of one) | | | | | | | | | ------------- ------------- ------------- Hope this helps!
I like the dropdown option, as it allows for configurations that have more than one split. Currently, Dolphin does not support this, but Konqueror did in KDE 3 and it was great.
See also related bug 188474, which asks to close the _inactive_ pane.
The behavior in Konqueror/KDE3 is actually a lot more advanced - it allowed for custom splits - you could split your view (horizontally or vertically) and further split each of those views in either direction and so on. It is a good "eventual" goal to head towards. (I understand that Yakuake has this feature in the works) If that is the ultimate UI goal of the Dolphin project, the current behavior of the close button (closing the currently selected sub-window) is the ONLY logical option and this bug, along with 188474 should be closed immediately. On the other hand, if the current two-pane view is the destination towards which Dolphin is headed, this bug makes all the sense in the world. I understand that no one can predict the future beyond a couple of releases, but I'd probably like one of the Dolphin-heads to weigh in on this - do you see any reason to shift the paradigm from what it is now, towards what it was in Konqueror/KDE3? Will Dolphin have custom splits or will there be only the current two pane view? For what it's worth, I would like the custom split idea - I often juggle files between three directories at work and the new tab option has been the stop-gap, none-too-bad solution to this. Custom splitting the view will probably make a lot of people happy. But hell, if it isn't going to work because of any reason, I won't complain. Summary: My preference (in decreasing order) 1) custom splits - mark this bug as resolved. 2) two pane view - drop down button that remembers the last option 3) two pane view - Separate close buttons that one can add to the taskbar according to preference. (Or just one twin-button in the place of the current close button) Over to the Dolphin overlords...
"1) custom splits - mark this bug as resolved." Why? With custom splits there also could be an option like "leave only the active pane" Anyway, I strongly support this wish (preferring implementation 2 or, in case of the dropdown list, being able to configure default option).
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 411500 ***
Oops, wrong bug, sorry about that.