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

[yahoo-pier_andreit]

On 08/08/12 11:14, Duncan wrote:
> 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.
>

:-)) simply an option is enough to please both :-))

> 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

konqueror was excellent, I lost the interest when they get rid of filter 
facility, for me is the killer application in file browser, you can put 
maaaany things in the same folder and search for name, fantastic!!, no 
need to remember where you put that file, just give it a long name that 
identify it and filter...:-))

> 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.)
>