Jaunty users: please triage

[marc]

Dotan Cohen said:

>> I've always used krusader in kde, but I'm using it a lot less with the
>> more grown-up dolphin. I definitely need the ability to launch a
>> console from a pane. The current console feature in dolphin is very
>> broken :- ( I'd love something equivalent to Directory Opus from
>> Windows, though; a superb piece of software. And a good example of why
>> dumbing down is rarely a good thing.
>>
>>
> Have you filed a feature request? Do you want me to file it? If you want
> to contact me off list about how exactly you would like it to work, or
> how it worked in Konqueror in KDE 3, then we'll file it and see what
> Peter (the lead Dolphin dev) has to say.

Nope, I haven't filed a feature request, I probably should.

I'd just like to be able to fork a console from the current location. In 
Opus, I use the 'c'-key, but that's not important, just as long as it's 
configurable. In konqueror it's f2 - they are wedded to that ancient DOS 
curses file manager, which has always been their weakness, imo. Nice 
guys, decent tool, poor mo.

The inbuilt, single terminal in dolphin is okay, but very limited, and 
pretty much useless for development purposes. I can't start a build in 
there, for example, or a git pull/svn update, and carry on working.

I would also like to see Find Files on the right-click menu, and for that 
to automatically use the directory being clicked. Searching from file 
managers in KDE has collapsed; it's woeful.

Another feature: location aliases. Just start typing (or prefix with /, 
say) and you go to a location. Saves hours of traversing, or pointy-
clicky nonsense. You generally know where you want to go, so I need a 
quick way to get there. (Oddly, you can use alt+f2,dolphin <location>, 
but it presents the folder as being empty!)

But in reality, I don't know why file manager developers don't take a 
look at Opus and "borrow" its best features. It is by far the most 
powerful file manager across all platforms.

And you're right, maybe we should take this offline :-)

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Best,
Marc