I would like to change the default behavior for dragging an item from one folder and dropping it into another folder so that there is no prompt. Is there a way to set KDE / Dolphin so that if you are moving an item from one folder to another folder on the same partition / local directory, it defaults to "move". And, if you drag the item to a folder on a different partition / remote directory it defaults to "copy". This is the way it works in Windows, OSX, Gnome and XFCE. I've never run into a situation where this default behavior is not what I intended. I would rather have that as the default behavior, with the option to over-ride with Ctrl / Shift key if I want a different behavior.

The prompt with options to either "Move" or "Copy" gets in the way and I'm concerned that I may accidentally choose the wrong option. This would be particularly sticky if I am trying to copy files / folders over FTP to my local drive and I accidentally selected "Move" instead of copy. Then, I'd have to cancel and go through each of the selected items on the remote directory and make sure that they are all still there. A pain in the **** I don't need

I'm going to bump this. Does anybody have a solution?

What you are after does not appear to be possible unfortunately. You could try opening a feature request at bugs.kde.org.