Split View in dolphin usability issue

[Todd]

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Daniel Kreuter
<daniel.kreuter85 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am 09.01.2013 10:40 schrieb "Mark" <markg85 at gmail.com>:
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> I often use the split view temporarily f.e. to copy/move files from one
> folder to another. When i'm finishend i return to the single view and
> always the wrong view stays open.
>
> I created a wish in bko two days ago (
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312834) and there are already 60
> votes so i will start working on it as soon as my build environment is set
> up.
>
> So long
>

This is also my most common use-case and this problem constantly trips me
up.

The reason I never submitted a bug report is because developers generally
seem resistant to changing these sorts of semi-arbitrary choices out of
fear of upsetting users who have grown accustomed to the current behavior
(for example proposals to change default keyboard shortcuts), so I didn't
think such a proposal would be accepted.  Frank has expressed this concern
already, but perhaps if there is enough support for this idea we can at
least get a second toolbar button we can add.
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