Split View in dolphin usability issue

[Mark]

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Todd <toddrjen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Please drop the idea of a second button just for this. It's pointless
and only adds clutter.