SUMMARY At the moment in Dolphin, you can click at the end of the location bar to change from breadcrumb mode to editable mode. Dolphin then stays in that mode until you click the tick at the end of the location bar, at which point it reverts to breadcrumbs. I'd like Dolphin to revert to breadcrumbs as soon as the location bar loses focus (like on Windows). To me this feels much more intuitive, so I'd like to make this the default behaviour. I appreciate that other people may have different preferences, so perhaps the breadcrumb behaviour should be user-settable in the Dolphin config menu. Discussion on Reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/d7r6cf/dolphin_feature_request_revert_to_breadcrumbs_on/ SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.16.5 KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.62.0 Qt Version: 5.12.3
Related report (not sure if it counts as a duplicate, but this report has been closed): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157593
If one starts editing the address in the location bar, the state of the location bar should not be lost if the window loses focus. Two options: (1) the location bar remains editable even after the window loses focus; (2) the bar reverts to the breadcrumb but when going back to edit it the previous state is restored.
(In reply to Michael D from comment #2) > If one starts editing the address in the location bar, the state of the > location bar should not be lost if the window loses focus. Two options: (1) > the location bar remains editable even after the window loses focus; (2) the > bar reverts to the breadcrumb but when going back to edit it the previous > state is restored. How about trying to resolve the user input as soon as the location bar loses focus - if it can be resolved to a path, then cd to that directory and go to breadcumbs. If not, stay in editable mode.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 157593 ***