Dolphin drag-and-drop

Piotr Gbyliczek piotr.gbyliczek at reconnix.com
Thu Oct 22 16:26:36 UTC 2015


On Wednesday 21 October 2015 17:37:43 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I have several Dolphin windows, some with split panes, taking up a lot
> of screen space. Each pane contains multiple nested folders and it's
> not possible to have the entire set in view at once, either because
> they're scrolled out of sight or because one window is overlapping
> another.
> 
> If I want to drag and drop a file from one pane to a specific position
> in another (such as to a closed folder in the target pane), they have
> to both be visible before I start. IOW after grabbing the file with the
> left button (and keeping the button depressed) the target pane will not
> pop to the top of the window stack so I can point at the destination
> folder, and if the folder happens to be visible it won't open so I can
> walk down the tree. This is less functional than other systems
> (Windows, MacOS and no doubt other Linux file browsers).
> 
> Is there a way to configure Dolphin to get the desired behaviour? I
> know I can use right-click copy and paste but that's not what I'm
> asking.

Hi, 

I can hoover over tree folder list in places section in dolphin window and it 
opens closed folders and scrolls up and down when holding a file to move. 

Can't do the same over main folder view. 

Regards,
Piotr



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