Dear KDE Developers!

I have the following problems with dolphin. (I use the KDE 3.5.10, KDE4 is not yet good enough for me)

1) File changes (like size, or a file being deleted by an other program) are not shown in real time. I don't want to reload, the contents of the panes should be monitored.

2) After exiting a directory, the first item of the previous directory is selected, not the one I just left.

3) If I select like 30 archives in a directory and try to extract them all, all of them start at the same time and most crash. I have to extract files one by one If a lot of archives are selected, extracting should proceed one by one...

Please correct these to make Dolphin 10 times better

Tenchi

Dear KDE Developers!

Unfortunately you are addressing the wrong party. The KDE 3 Dolphin wasn't developed by KDE developers, although it was initially created by the same person who made Dolphin in KDE 4. However, the KDE 3 has no longer been maintained for more than a year now. Someone forked it and renamed it to D3lphin, which Kubuntu has decided, for one reason or another, to ship as their default file manager. However, that someone also dropped it eventually and it is no longer maintained from his end as well.

Long story short: It is now something only Kubuntu maintains and supports. You can try reaching them in #kubuntu IRC or http://kubuntuforums.net

Please correct these to make Dolphin 10 times better

It already is... in KDE 4. Unfortunately, I highly doubt D3lphin will be able to even become 2x better at this point...

The KDE3 version of Dolphin will probably never see any more additional coding ever. It's not really maintained even by us at Kubuntu. :P
The only things that would probably ever be fixed until Hardy falls out of support are security holes, if any arise.

OK, thanks

And are these problems addressed in the KDE4 version?

tenchi39 wrote:OK, thanks

And are these problems addressed in the KDE4 version?

Number 1 at least is something that I've submitted is a patch for (it's not a Dolphin problem, per se - the fix needs to be further down the stack, deep within kdelibs), but unfortunately the maintainer of that part of the stack is kept so incredibly busy with his new job that he doesn't really have time to review it


http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154676

2. I don't know about - I'll have a look this evening.

3. May or may not be the responsibility of Ark to get right - I'm not sure.

VVVV You are welcome

Thanks!

1. Works properly here in KDE 4.1.2, that is, changes are reflected immediately.

2. When you go up or back to a previous directory you've been to, nothing is selected at all. Probably more preferable than having the first item in the directory always selected.

3. This has always been Ark's responsibility. Unfortunately, currently Ark doesn't integrate with Dolphin (and Konqueror) at all.

1) Sounds good

2) I'm not very good in english but will try to explain. If I have a long list of directories in detailed view for example, and want to check the contents of some, than when I exit one of them I need the "cursor" to be over the directory I just exited. It is very frustrating to go in a directory, exit and go down the list to find the next again insted of just pressing the down arrow like in total commander. I belive konqueror worked the same way too

3) I hope ark will integrate in the future. or it could have a feature to disable multiple instances of itself when starting it with an archive to extract or whatever....