Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.4.5) OS: Linux It is very inconvenient to use Dolphins search filter, because you have to click into it. This could be better solved, if you'd copy the Nautilus behaviour (Gnome 2.3 series, with 3.0 i don't know). When you are in Nautilus and you want to filter a directory, you just have to type the characters you want, and they are automatically typed inside an appearing filter. This is much more user friendly than Dolphin. Please add that feature and remove the inconvenient search filter bar. Reproducible: Always Expected Results: see above
Do you mean the "Filter Bar" (Tools -> Show Filter Bar) or the search box at the right of the toolbar? The search box has been replaced in 4.6 by a similar approach like in Nautilus; for the "filter bar" no clicking is required also in 4.4...
No, i really mean the thing the filter bar does. But what is annoying, is that you first have to click into it before you can filter. Without clicking inside it, Dolphin just jumps to the letter you type, which is not what i want. Imagine you have a folder with many songs in it and you are searching for the word "cheap" in it, but you know the song name starts with a different prefix. So just typing in the first few characters from "cheap" wont help, you have to click inside the filter bar and then its being filtered. This is plain annoying. So again please: Just open Nautilus and compare their behaviour.
Thanks for the update. This has been fixed since Dolphin 4.6.
I just tried KDE 4.6.5 from Debian testing: This has NOT been fixed. It seems i cannot make myself understood by you. So if you would PLEASE just open up a Nautilus filemanager, navigate to a directory with many files inside, and PLEASE start typing characters ... then you would see, that the characters you type are automatically being used to FILTER. This is NOT the case with Dolphin, where you have to hit ctrl+i in order to filter! I hope you understand me right, this time. If not, let me know.
(In reply to comment #4) Hmmm, I do not use nautilus a lot, so feel free to correct my understanding. Nautilus only supports "locate & focus item by leading characters in name when you start to type". It does not provide the filtering ability that dolphin provides. The difference is easy to understand: 0). there are 5 jpeg files and 5 png files in current folder. 1). using nautilus, no matter what characters you type, it always shows those 10 files. 2). using dolphin, same results with typing characters. But with filtering, you can easily ask dolphin to only show the 5 png files. So the thing is dolphin provides both what nautilus does and the extra filtering ability. The minor difference is dolphin does not show what you have typed after you start typing. I guess that is what you are really complaining about. But what nautilus does is NOT filtering, seriously. I guess that is why your report has been misunderstood. I tried nautils-2.32.0 and nautils-3.2.1
Sorry for the late answer. I have so much work to do and no time. You are absolutely right: I started Ubuntu 8.04 and rechecked, but it really shows only, what i am typing, but does truly NOT filter. So youre absolute right and i am sorry. I guess i have mistaken that for filtering in my memory. But could you make it a feature, not only, that it shows what i am typing, but that i can check an option in Dolphin so that it DOES filtering when typing. Its much more convenient to filter this way, than to have to click into the filterbar before. And if you'd make it an option, people can decide which behavior they want. I certainly would appreciate it a lot, and i guess many others would too. cheers, buddy
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 185034 ***