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We do have now few different sidepanels for Dolphin.

Places - for shortcuts to wanted directories or KIO-slaves (semantik, network, vnc etc)
Information - for file preview, file data (size, type etc) and nepomuk (tagging, commenting, rating).
Folders - for showing a filesystem tree
Terminal - for having a virtual konsole terminal bottom of the dolphin for fast access.

What I really miss, is fast and easy way to actually work with files by the functions what Dolphin and Konqueror offers. The context menu and its actions.

The new sidepanel would be "Actions" and would work differently than on idea #38872 (later added this information). Making the sidepanel simpler and smoother and more informative with buttons and not making duplicates of other Dolphin features as #38872 suggest.


(The mockup lacks icons. I do not know the HIG should the icons and different sized text on button names be positioned to same line or different. But Idea is there. I like them without icons. The buttons could be even bigger, about twice of that if needed.)

We have touchscreens but it is hard to make a right click with such interface. And the context menu is scary place for avarage joe and lisa. And when we need to do something special like compress the file for email attachment, backup or to burn to CD/DVD. It is easier to start from applications itself, than from context menu.

People does not encrypt important files because it is hard and clumsy. Still it really would be needed to have easy way to encrypt and decrypt files. We have great application program for that called Kleopatra. But using it is harder.

We could use the right side even more. The information panel does not need to be the only one. Even it has one of the greatest feature to rate, tag and comment files (I dont like preview myself, I use preview on thumbnails ON).

Idea is that we have dropdown lists for "Open As..." menu or to compress as gzip or zip or "compress as..". Encryption list to encryp + sign + delete, encrypt + delete, sign only and so on. Email / Add as Attachment. You get the point.

Maybe make the sidepanel possible to have configured so you can choose what functions there would be shown.

Example the Nepomuk dropdown list would now include the associating to task or building the semantic relations and so on. But they could be separate so you can just click once without drop down list.

Or think if information/actions could be possible link someway together. As seen, the actions list would have empty space bottom of it.
Let user to add there the information panel functions like tagging, commenting and rating and you get a very powerfull sidepanel.

Why is this marked as dublicate when it is not duplicate by idea?

This use buttons, not links
This includes the nepomuk tagging, not only as own panel.
This only takes functions what are not possible to place toolbar like actions entry from context menu.
This use dropdown list style, not context menu style.

Only dublicate thing is the name but otherwise it is a different idea.

Besides using drop-downs instead of links, which completely defeats two of the main purposes of having a panel in the first place (namely to save mouse clicks and making things easier to find), and integrating the information panel, which also defeats one of the main purposes of having a panel (that you can turn different panels on or off separately and move them independently), I don't really see the difference. The previous idea also deals with putting stuff from the context menu in the panel, so the contents of the panels in the two ideas are not really any different (except, once again, for the tagging thing).

So the only real differences are that your idea duplicates functionality of an existing panel and it makes things harder to get to. So I don't think it is different enough to justify a separate idea. I guarantee you developers will not want to duplicate functionality of an existing panel, nor would they want to merge the panels. So the only feasible difference is that your idea uses drop-downs, and I don't think that justifies a separate idea.