[dolphin] [Bug 420966] After tab-completing to a path (or typing a trailing slash) and hitting enter, Dolphin instead navigates to the first suggested subdirectory of that path

[Eduardo]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=420966

Eduardo <zlotz at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #20 from Eduardo <zlotz at hotmail.com> ---
I too was suffering with the default "Dropdown List & Automatic" text
completion behaviour. Changing it to "Dropdown list" with right-click on the
address bar fixed all my problems. I'm a much happier person now!

As a user I think the "Dropdown List & Automatic" being the default Text
Completion method is not a good decision. If we type "/etc/" and quickly press
ENTER, we expect it to go to the "/etc/" folder, not "/etc/acpi/" as is what
happens with current default behviour. 

Alro, regarding the TAB usage: when using bash on a terminal, typing "cd /et",
pressing TAB once, and pressing ENTER, it takes us to "/etc/" folder. With
current Dolphin default behaviour, typing "/et" + TAB + ENTER would lead us
unintuitivelly to "/etc/acpi/".

Even the file picker KDialog present in many KDE Addps adopt the "Dropdown
list" as the default, so Dolphin is also inconsistent with the rest of KDE
environment by default.

I think Dolphin should have a consistent behaviour to the terminal and other
file managers by default. New users will feel way more welcomed to adopt it if
the default behavior is what they are already expecting. And this desired and
expected behaviour is already implemented, it is the "Dropdown List" text
completion option.

So here's my plea to change Dolphin's default text completion to "Dropdown
List" in upcoming versions.

Also, the option to change the behaviour is a little bit "hidden", I only found
it after reading the comments in this bug report. I understand it is Dolphin's
philosophy to not be so configurable, but since this IS configurable already, I
think it deserves an entry under the "Configure Dolphin" screen, that's where
users will go to look for available customizations.

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