[PATCH] Dolphin column view behavior

Aurélien Gâteau aurelien.gateau at free.fr
Sun Dec 16 20:01:54 GMT 2007


Peter Penz wrote:

> Hi Aurélien,
> 
> Thanks for your patches!
> 
>> I have been using Dolphin column view for a while and got a bit
>> frustrated by its behavior being different from MacOS Finder. I guess
>> Dolphin column view is supposed to follow the Finder implementation (am I
>> wrong?), so I put together a little patch to address my issues.
> 
> I've had a look on the column view of MacOS Finder but Dolphin is not
> supposed to follow the Finder implementation 1:1. But if we do things
> different we need to have good arguments as Apple usually does a good job
> concerning usability :-)
 
[snip]

> So as summary I'd like to postpone the "view-mode" patch until 4.1 for
> getting some feedback first from other users.
>
> For the "double-click" patch I'm quite open applying it for 4.0 if nobody
> from the "double-clickers" objects.

This sounds wise to me. As you said, we shouldn't make too many behavior
changes now that the last rc is behind us.

Aurélien






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