Comments on: Tabs in file managers

By: Lynoure Braakman

Lynoure Braakman — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:44:40 +0000

The feature I’m most missing when using Dolphin is the Konqueror’s MoveTo/CopyTo context menu. That alls quick moving and copying to multiple places, and is pretty essential when sorting out contents of directories to subdirectory tree. Tabs can do this to some degree and twin panel fails in this totally as I have to shuffle back and forth between directories constantly in order to have the right one in the panel.

By: andrewmin

andrewmin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:28:57 +0000

Yeah, Dolphin added tabs (thank goodness). I was surprised that the Thunar devs decided to not.

All I can say is that I’m so glad that Konqueror has tabs. I’m using that until I decide whether or not to switch to KDE 4.1.

By: celettu

celettu — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:52:20 +0000

Robert:

In that case, the KDE devs had to eat their own words and give in to the pressure

I agree with your other comments.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:30:23 +0000

Erm, don’t know about dolphin in kde 4.0.x but kde 4.1.x has tabbing Ctrl+Shift+N

Personally, I love tabs, simple key sequence and I can be managing more than one folder at once in the same window, plus I then have less windows open which is easier to manage on the desktop imo.

I like window splitting and find it hard to justify using both splitting and tabbing, but when managing many files at once I prefer tabbing as you have a bit more flexibility instead of having to share screen real estate between tasks, but I will happily use either of these regularly and even on the rare occasion both.

By: Cae

Cae — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:25:34 +0000

Having Dolphin to replace Konqueror is the dumbest idea KDE dev ever had.

They are throwing away the crown jewel