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

[Duncan]

Kevin Krammer posted on Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:36:12 +0200 as excerpted:

> 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 ;)

FWIW, I read that as well.  ... And now we're seeing a complaint from 
going back to inline renaming.  <shrug>  I guess as they say, can't 
please everybody all the time.

It'd be nice to have that as an option, but at least originally, I 
believe dolphin was supposed to be a "simpler" file manager that "just 
worked", without all the "extra" config options of konqueror, etc.  So 
it'd probably end up an option in konqueror, with dolphin either 
continuing to be hard-coded or honoring the konqueror option, but with no 
visible way to set it in/for dolphin.  (AFAIK that's the way the "keep a 
konqueror instance preloaded" functionality works currently.  Setting it 
for konqueror also effectively sets it for dolphin, but there's nothing 
anywhere that actually documents that, it just works that way.)

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