[dolphin] [Bug 506788] New: "Quit Dolphin" wording is misleading and should be changed

Riccardo Robecchi bugzilla_noreply at kde.org
Wed Jul 9 10:00:17 BST 2025


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506788

            Bug ID: 506788
           Summary: "Quit Dolphin" wording is misleading and should be
                    changed
    Classification: Applications
           Product: dolphin
      Version First 25.04.3
       Reported In:
          Platform: Neon
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: sephiroth_pk at hotmail.it
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY
The "ctrl+q" shortcut is normally used to quit an application so that all of
its windows are closed simultaneously (see for example Firefox or LibreOffice).
Dolphin does not do this and it instead treats ctrl+q as an alternative to
alt+F4, so it only closes the active window. If there are multiple tabs open,
it shows a dialogue that asks the user whether they would like to close the
entire window, to close the selected tab or to do nothing. The text for the
first option is however "quit Dolphin", which would lead one to believe that it
would actually *quit Dolphin* and therefore close *all* windows.
The text should therefore be changed to represent the actual action being
carried out, which is "close current window", similarly to "close current tab".

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open multiple tabs
2. Press ctrl+q

OBSERVED RESULT
Dolphin misleadingly asks whether to "quit Dolphin".

EXPECTED RESULT
Dolphin asks whether to close the current window.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE neon
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0

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