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It would be great to see the places menu in dolphin ordered, just like Nautilus in Gnome 3 o marlin:
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If this is implemented I'd like for there to be an option have the current panel setup to revert to. It's a good suggestion that would aid new users who can't easily distinguish between those folders/partitions.

oracle2b, I agree that this is a good suggestion to aid new users, but that doesn't imply that it is a bad suggestion which would hinder "expert" users. As such, I don't see why there needs to be an option to revert.

i don't understand this. Is it some way to make dolphin look like nautilus ?

If you want to be technical, yes. However really it's a usability improvement as it helps people understand whether the places are on the local machine, on a removable/temporary location, or on a remote networked machine.

I would love to see this implemented. It would be a big usability improvement to get the items categorized and maybe if needed get the groups collapesd. E.g. now I have 7 partitions in the places panel which will all shown.
But the places panel doesn't belong alone to dolphin. It's a systemwide element. E.g. you get it in the save/open dialog.
There are already bug reports. But it looks like nobody cares (or have time to) about implementation.
Have a look at: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169751 or https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212829

oracle2b wrote:If this is implemented I'd like for there to be an option have the current panel setup to revert to. It's a good suggestion that would aid new users who can't easily distinguish between those folders/partitions.

Agree, as Dolphin is today one have to be very very new to computers not to understand those places. Removable device, home, root, trash etc is quite clear as it is.
I vote this up however as I could see me use and like that places would be more configurable like the tool menu - with separator and perhaps a nameable group feature to mini-, maximize places-groups.

PS; I'd hate to have any gnomish/ubuntu standardisation (read; one-size-fits-all) on KDE

This has been bothering me about the places menu. it's all over the place (no pun intended).

This looks very clean. If Nautilus looks good i see no reason not to copy from it.

I like the idea. It would be especially nice if they could collapse so remote places wouldn't show when I'm not connected to a network or partitions could be easily hidden and shown.

If it was user-customizable as in the one bug, it would be even better. I don't know why experienced users would be annoyed by the extra visual cue, but they would then be able to get rid of it (or, at worst, put them all in one group). I work on remote machines and usually have a local directory connected with that work and would like to be able to group those together, collapsing them when not needed.

Which leads me to the idea that maybe places should be activity aware. Then, instead of collapsing groups that aren't needed, I'd just hide them in activities where they aren't relevant. Or, if places wouldn't be common to all activities, I'd only create them where they're relevant. Whichever.

Moult wrote:If you want to be technical, yes. However really it's a usability improvement as it helps people understand whether the places are on the local machine, on a removable/temporary location, or on a remote networked machine.

basically like adding the possibility to make tree structures inside the panel, like bookmarks or folders ?

Are you saying the ability for custom groups for places?

Moult wrote:Are you saying the ability for custom groups for places?

most of those items are editable, a tree structure would be possible by adding for example in the edit item dialog an option to treat the item as a label (as in gmail), and leave to the user the customization.

+1 Nice idea. Still I'd like to have it as a removable option too, because if I want to have only 4 or 5 "places" of distinct origins, the sorting would do no good and instead take useless place.
My 2 cents

There are different ideas for group functionality in sidepanel and I have had problems in the OS X Tiger with groups.


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But I like the newer Finder groupping

Can you please tell me. What are your pros and contras of the two OS X grouping solutions?