When the places panel is disabled, an icon for it appears on the left side of the directory breadcrumb. Clicking the icon shows the locations from "places". A left mouse click in an entry from the appearing menu takes us, as expected, to the corresponding location. I was expecting that a middle mouse click would open the location on a new tab as it happens when we do so on a directory. However, that does not seem to happen. To do so can be very handy when working with external drives, moving files, etc. Plus it is somewhat inconsistent with the rest of dolphin's behavior, where the middle click will open stuff in a new tab. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Disable places panel 2.click on places icon on the left of the breadcrumb 3.middle click on one of the locations Actual Results: Nothing happens Expected Results: new tab opens on the corresponding location
Thanks for the report! I agree that this would make sense.
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
+1 related feature: bug 280571
I think that, just like bug 280571, this can only be solved inside KUrlNavigator/KUrlNavigatorPlacesSelector. Dolphin does listen to KUrlNavigator's "tabRequested(KUrl)" signal already (can be tested by middle-clicking a "breadcrumb button"), so to implement this wish, KUrlNavigator must emit that signal also when middle-clicking a location in the "Places" menu.
Hello, I just found out that middle click for opening in new background tab actually works in v 4.11.3. However, ctrl+click does not.
I think the product should be changed to Dolphin, right? And maybe assignee -> Dolphin Bug Assignee (dolphin-bugs-null@kde.org)?
Patches: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7512 (for the button) https://phabricator.kde.org/D7513 (for items in the menu)
Git commit 027576183f9487910a5acbb762d049c4713bcff7 by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 25/08/2017 at 08:48. Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'. [KUrlNavigator] Emit tabRequested when places selector is middle-clicked This makes it consistent with the breadcrumbs that also request a new tab when middle-clicked Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7512 M +2 -0 src/filewidgets/kurlnavigator.cpp M +11 -0 src/filewidgets/kurlnavigatorplacesselector.cpp M +7 -0 src/filewidgets/kurlnavigatorplacesselector_p.h https://commits.kde.org/kio/027576183f9487910a5acbb762d049c4713bcff7
Git commit 7dd46685bed7ec54462be6d2a9514084f5a927d2 by Kai Uwe Broulik. Committed on 25/08/2017 at 08:49. Pushed by broulik into branch 'master'. [KUrlNavigator] Emit tabRequested when place in menu is middle-clicked Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7513 M +22 -0 src/filewidgets/kurlnavigatorplacesselector.cpp M +2 -0 src/filewidgets/kurlnavigatorplacesselector_p.h https://commits.kde.org/kio/7dd46685bed7ec54462be6d2a9514084f5a927d2