[kde-linux] dolphin kde 4.9 how to get rid of online rename

Kevin Krammer krammer at kde.org
Tue Aug 7 14:36:12 UTC 2012


On Tuesday, 2012-08-07, yahoo-pier_andreit wrote:
> On 07/08/12 14:00, Duncan wrote:
> > yahoo-pier_andreit posted on Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:48:59 +0200 as excerpted:
> >> I installed kde 4.9, the new dolphin has the *new* online rename, in
> >> many cases it is useful and beautiful, but in my case when I have long
> >> names is very better the old way, in the old way you can enlarge with
> >> one click on the bar the window with the name and see all the name, with
> >> the online you cant, so, how can I come back to the not online rename??
> > 
> > While I ran all four 4.9 prereleases and now have 4.9.0 installed, I
> > don't use dolphin enough to even really know the difference between its
> > old way and the traditional inline rename.  Neither do I see a way to get
> 
> the difference are that now you edit the new name directly on the name
> showed in dolphin window, before a dedicated window was opened to do
> this, I use dolphin expecially for the filter facility, it's fantastic:-))

I am not sure but I read that 4.9 restores the renaming how it was before 4.8 
and that only 4.8 had a dialog because the newly introduced Dolphin view 
engine couldn't do inline renaming yet.

Tons of people complained about that change ;)

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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