[dolphin] [Bug 467192] Folders are opened in new tab but should open in new window

[Felix Ernst]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467192

--- Comment #5 from Felix Ernst <felixernst at kde.org> ---
Well, I am not sure what I am supposed to tell you. I do my development for KDE
in my free time as a volunteer without payment. We are not payed to fix those
bugs, so expecting anything to happen from our side is already a bit
ill-advised. In this case though, we did actually fix the bug (AFAIK), so
that's all we do about it. Dolphin has never had the concept of a long term
support version. We release a new Dolphin version three times a year currently
and support each of these versions with bugfixes for that third of a year.

Now Ubuntu by the company Canonical comes along and offers a so-called long
term support (LTS) version of their distribution. The idea of this LTS version
is that it will receive security fixes for some amount of years
(https://ubuntu.com/blog/what-is-an-ubuntu-lts-release). They aren't even
claiming that they will provide bug-fixes, only security fixes. So in this case
they are true to their word.

In the end, there is probably simply not enough money in this business to fix
annoyances like these in older versions. I am not sure how much money you might
have paid for your distribution, but none of it landed in the pockets of the
KDE contributors that maintain Dolphin.

If it was a good use of my time to maintain old versions instead of improving
future releases, either because of a financial or a "the greater good"
incentive, I wouldn't mind doing it. As it currently stands though, it isn't
really feasible for us to provide long term support versions of Dolphin for
free.

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