I would need to see the bug report, do you have a link?

HmpfCBR wrote:

TheBlackCat wrote:In kde 4.5 the popups no longer just appear, you have to click an icon next to the folder.

Do you know if that will be configureable? Actually I find the automatic popup of folders quite handy.

Yes, I miss it too. It's inevitable. Whatever they do, some people will be unhappy. Personally I loved being able to peek through the directory tree to the file I wanted, and since I have smallish folderviews with small icons it never caused any nuisance.

annew wrote:

HmpfCBR wrote:

TheBlackCat wrote:In kde 4.5 the popups no longer just appear, you have to click an icon next to the folder.

Do you know if that will be configureable? Actually I find the automatic popup of folders quite handy.

Yes, I miss it too. It's inevitable. Whatever they do, some people will be unhappy. Personally I loved being able to peek through the directory tree to the file I wanted, and since I have smallish folderviews with small icons it never caused any nuisance.

I do aswell hope they re-add the option to display the folderview on hover; Those tiny buttons are terrible and have already slowed me down by a wide margin. Even the popups require the button. This is forcing me to reconsider 4.5 and moving back to 4.4.

If the option doesn't exist it can't be added now, KDE 4.5 is in string freeze.

Would like the hover previews back, in some configurable manner of course. Really useful feature.

I've installed PCLinuxOS on my wife's laptop and upgraded it to 4.5 and done the same on my desktop machine, she's got the + and up arrow on her icons, which i love by the way, but i've only got the + 'gutted'

anyone know how to get the up arrow aswell

cheers
z

Never mind, i did it just changed the icon set and then change it back again, now it all works...!

excellent, i really like 4.5, looks great, works great

thanks devs...

z

this is the greatest feature KDE ever had and i'm really surprised that so many ppl miss the whole point!

basicaly you can get to/access any file on your system without opening any folders without clicking even once

the question is: is it possible now in KDE SC 4.6.3 to turn the automatic hover back on so it pops up without clicking on the arrow button?
if not are there any plans to get this setting working?

my god how could anyone want to turn it off! this is the future!

Unfortunately it doesn't automatically trigger. However, as a very good compromise between automatically triggering and never triggering, you can press the Up arrow to initiate in depth folder browsing of a folder. Once you have started it, any folders within the folder you are in will automatically expand.

shame
it would be great to have this setting
if you want the arrow or want it automatically to pop up
KDE is great because it gives you the freedom to choose and so it should be in this case

A fellow user on ubuntuusers.de just found that the option to enable folder preview on mouse over still exists in the source code (4.6.4) and that it can be enabled via the plasma-desktop-appletsrc file. Search for the folderview applet you want to change and add the line

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clickForFolderPreviews=false

to its configuration.

Example:

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[Containments][1][Applets][2][Configuration]
Share=false
clickForFolderPreviews=false
customIconSize=32
filter=0
filterFiles=*
geometry=0,35,600,400
immutability=2
mimeFilter=
plugin=folderview
sortDirsFirst=true
textColor=255,255,255
url=file:///home/dirk/Downloads/
wallpaperplugin=image
wallpaperpluginmode=SingleImage
zvalue=4


Afterwards you need to restart your plasma-desktop.

Thank you very much! It is a blessing to have the old behavior back in folder view!

@HmpfCBR:
Nice find! Hopefully that means that we'll see a GUI option for it in the future.

Here is a wishlist-report for a GUI option in the future:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277035

As far as I could tell, in 4.8 there will be an option for using click or hover. This bug (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250703) was recently closed with a commit that suggests this will be the case.