Rename in-line vs. rename pop-up

[Peter Penz]

Hello Marcus,

On Thursday 14 January 2010 13:48:11 Marcus Harrison wrote:
> Something I noticed while using Dolphin on a newly-installed
>  plasma-netbook- driven netbook - the default for renaming is a pop-up
>  window. Problem is, this window is made full-screen under plasma-netbook.

I was not aware about this...

> I think that, ideally, renaming in-line should be the default - but while
> we're discussing it, is there any reason (beyond simultaneously renaming
> multiple files) to keep the pop-up? Would it be all that damaging to get
>  rid of the pop-up for individual files, remove that option and just use
>  rename in- line?

Using the popup was intended, as I watched people (that I'd see as target user 
group of Dolphin [1]) having problems with inline renaming:

- Renaming very long file names in the icons view is tricky because of the 
vertical scrolling and the clipped text. I watched people trying to change the 
cursor position, but they accidentally clicked outside the renaming border and 
finalized the renaming.

- they don't know how to finalize the renaming (it's not obvious that pressing 
Return is required)

- they don't know how to cancel the renaming

But this was no kind of usability study and maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there are 
also ways to improve the inline renaming (e. g. extending the width for the 
icons view or providing OK-/Cancel buttons) and drop the popup renaming 
completely.

Best regards,
Peter

[1] http://dolphin.kde.org/philosophy.html

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