KDE 4.9 / rename online inline possible *grrr*

[Christian González]

2012/10/4 Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
>
> someobdy may create a file and test to rename it in the
> way put date/time at the begin
>
> "this-is-a-really-dmaned-long-filename-2012_10_04_20_09.txt"
>
> how can anybody imagine that this has a better usability
> in a inline-input where you have to scroll left/right
>
> before 4.9 there was a option for konqueror to restore the
> old behavior, folderview did ignore it and was unuseable
>
> for folderview this becomes even worser than for konqueror
> because you have filenames over multiple lines because
> the lack of a list-view
> ______________
>
> MANY YEARS I LAUGHED ABOUT WINDOWS
>
> why? because they had a inline rename while the kde way
> was so much more user friendly to see now that kde goes
> the same unuseable way :-(
>
> DEAR DEVELOPERS: do not fix things that ain't broken

If you are using KDE 4.9.2, then you can put:

   RenameInline=false

in the [General] section of $KDEHOME/share/config/dolphinrc. See
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304627#c15 and
http://freininghaus.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/dolphin-bug-fixes-in-kde-4-9-2/.
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