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This idea is an improvement of the split view in Dolphin. This first mockup looks like a fairly standard split view:



You might notice two seemingly minor differences. The first is that the breadcrumb for the right split is right-aligned instead of left-aligned as it normally is. This is to give room for the important part, the chain link between the two split folders. Clicking that chain will link those two split views, giving something like this (once the left view is zoomed out):



The first thing you will probably notice is that the left side is no longer grayed out. Further, there is only one breadcrumb navigation bar, only one filter bar, and only one set of file information. This is because the two split views are now linked. Moving to a new folder moves both views to that folder. Selecting one or more files selects the same files in both views. Scrolling one view scrolls both, sorting one folder sorts both, etc. Anything you do to one affects both. This way, as an example, you can have the details view showing detailed file information and at the same time have a very zoomed-in icon mode showing large previews.



This is part of my series of Dolphin ideas

It would working fine with search(right pane contains search criteria and left files or vice-versa), so Nepomuk search will additionally gives us filter.

I consider this a pretty nifty feature. It's already available as part of Konqueror: the small, empty box in the right of the status bar will keep the two views in sync. Would be nice to see this in Dolphin somehow, since the split view is already there...