Dear Mr Penz, Reininghaus, Pescocsta and Angelaccio,
first and foremost I would like to express my deepest gratitude for your contribution to the world, which is in this case, one of the best filemanagers for Linux. It is people like you who make it possible for someone like me, to finally get rid of proprietary systems and corporations - in my case, switching from Windows to Manjaro Linux and KDE. Thank you!

But, not all is evil in the Windows world and there are some cases, in which we can learn from. I noticed a couple of possible improvements, which will certainly lead to an even better, more intuitive user experience. My feature requests are:

1) When using multible tabs, the text-align of the folders name is left. This is sth the windows explorer does better. With large folder structes, the left-aligned text shows the root of the tabs folder, it obscures the name of the folder, the user is currently looking at. The text aligment should be right.
Example: /home/user/documents/private/finances/2019 becomes /home/user/documents/private/... instead if .../documents/private/finances/2019

2) It is not possible to detach or attach tabs via drag and drop. This is a quite common feature for all tab enviroments, e.g. Firefox or other file managers. This feature would highly increase the workflow.

3) This is the best feature I ever found in a filemanager: Incremental inline search. I stumbled across this in an addon called qttabs for windows explorer. What it does is primarily searching for a filename, while typing it. But not restricted to the beginning of the file. Example: kwalletmanager.ending. If the user types "wallet" or "walletmanager" it will not be found. Incremental inline search would be a feature, that would skyrocket usability. Of course, it must be restricted to folders with less than (n) number of files for performance reasons, but still, this feature became a must have for me and I severely miss it, now that I switched to KDE.

4) A simple, but undescribebly useful workflow function: Go one level up, when double clicking on white space within a folder. This also comes from qttabs for windows explorer and it increased my workflow tremendously.


That is all from side :)

Again, thank you very much for your hard efforts!

With regards
Julius R.