Please send Dolphin back to Sea

[kubicle]

Re: Please send Dolphin back to Sea

Where are the Move files to ... and Copy files to ... functions?

At least with the latest version of dolphin, those can be enabled in dolphin settings > General > Context Menu

[Telengard]

Re: Please send Dolphin back to Sea

Hello Rog131,

>> Service Menus with Dolphin

So here's my Konsole log:

ken@vHeron:~$ cd /home/ken/.kde/share/apps/d3lphin/
[email]ken@vHeron:~/.kde[/email]/share/apps/d3lphin$ ls -laF
total 16
drwx------ 2 ken ken 4096 2008-09-29 12:14 ./
drwx------ 29 ken ken 4096 2008-09-22 11:10 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken ken 1126 2008-09-28 19:49 bookmarks.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken ken 1126 2008-09-28 19:49 bookmarks.xml.bak
[email]ken@vHeron:~/.kde[/email]/share/apps/d3lphin$ mkdir servicemenus
[email]ken@vHeron:~/.kde[/email]/share/apps/d3lphin$ cd servicemenus/
[email]ken@vHeron:~/.kde[/email]/share/apps/d3lphin/servicemenus$ echo -e '[Desktop Entry]
> ServiceTypes=all/allfiles,inode/directory
> Actions=CopyTo;MoveTo
> Encoding=UTF-8
> X-KDE-Submenu=Copy and Move To
>
> [Desktop Action CopyTo]
> Name=Copy To
> Icon=folder_man
> Exec=cp %U `kdialog --getexistingdirectory ~/`
>
> [Desktop Action MoveTo]
> Name=Move To
> Icon=folder_red_open
> Exec=mv %U `kdialog --getexistingdirectory ~/`
> ' > copy_move_to.desktop
[email]ken@vHeron:~/.kde[/email]/share/apps/d3lphin/servicemenus$

Seems to work, and is a pretty spiffy workaround. So thanks, Rog131, for the research and explanation.

Even so, I'm not sure I'm completely sold on Dolphin. I always thought that removing functionality in favor of simple interfaces was the philosophy of GNOME. If the KDE and Kubuntu teams are now adopting the same philosophy, then perhaps I should reevaluate my own notions about what environment will best serve my needs.

The good thing is -- we got choices here. The bad thing is if your choice is not the default-- it's annoying.

Well said, razrlazr!