Split View in dolphin usability issue

[Daniel Kreuter]

Hi Frank,

Am 07.01.2013 13:21 schrieb "Frank Reininghaus" <frank78ac at googlemail.com>:
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> thanks for your message!
>
> 2013/1/7 Daniel Kreuter:
> > Hi,
> >
> > While using the split view in dolphin I found a strange behavior where I
> > don't know if this is the way it should behave.
> > When I'm finished using the split view I would expect the currently
active
> > half to become the new single view but just the opposite is the case.
> > I would like to change this behavior so that the effect the user gets
isn't
> > surprising or annoying.
> >
> > Is there anyone else who would like to see this change in dolphin? If
so i
> > will start working on it.
>
> I understand that one might often want to keep the active view, rather
> than the other one. However, a quick Bugzilla search did not yield any
> indication that the current behaviour is a problem for many users.
>
> On the other hand, any behaviour change is likely to break workflows
> that people got used to (does anyone remember what happened after the
> automatic resizing in the Places Panel was disabled [1] ?). Therefore,
> I think that it might be better not to change it.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301959

Maybe I can introduce a new setting for this change so the user can decide
which behavior suits his needs. The default would be the old behavior.

I will create a feature request on bko later when I'm at home.

Greetings,
Daniel
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