Split View in dolphin usability issue

[Mark]

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Jekyll Wu <adaptee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013年01月07日 20:21, Frank Reininghaus wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> Just for the record, there was such a report[1], but it was closed[2] as
> WONTFIX by Peter.
>
> I myself also would like to keep the active view, and even made a stupid
> patch to do it that way sometime ago. But perhaps Peter is right.
>
> This should really be carefully considered and discussed. Make a poll? Write
> a article on planet KDE to collect opinions ?
>
> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188474
> [2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188474#c4
>
> Regards
> Jekyll

In my opinion it is logical to expect the url of your active view to
become the url for your single window when you close split view. The
fact that there aren't many/any duplicates/votes is likely due to the
fact that split view isn't the default and is not used "a lot". People
that are using it probably like the split view and hardly close it
anyway thus only very rarely experience this issue. Another reason is
that the issue is really minor in terms of usability so users are just
not likely to take the step and report it.

just my 5 cents.