I use Konqueror as a file manager, as I imagine most people do.
In the toolbar there is the view mode button, but if you click on it nothing happens. You have to click on the unbelievably small -- I've never hit it on the first try -- down triangle that pawns a menu of view modes: Icon view, multi-column view, list view, detailed list view, and so on. Right clicking on it, as with every other button in the toolbar, renders a toolbar menu. So all the button does is provide that tiny triangle.
Wouldn't it make more sense if the button itself produced the view mode list? It would certainlt be much easier to use.
I'm sure there was a reason for doing it as it is currently done, but that reason seems to have disappeared.
dep via tde-users wrote:
In the toolbar there is the view mode button, but if you click on it nothing happens. You have to click on the unbelievably small -- I've never hit it on the first try -- down triangle that pawns a menu of view modes: Icon view, multi-column view, list view, detailed list view, and so on. Right clicking on it, as with every other button in the toolbar, renders a toolbar menu. So all the button does is provide that tiny triangle.
Wouldn't it make more sense if the button itself produced the view mode list? It would certainlt be much easier to use.
click and hold the mouse key over the icon/button and the menu shows up, but it might be indeed better to show the menu without having to press and hold. I don't know if it's possible to implement.
said deloptes via tde-users: | dep via tde-users wrote: | > In the toolbar there is the view mode button, but if you click on it | > nothing happens. You have to click on the unbelievably small -- I've | > never hit it on the first try -- down triangle that pawns a menu of | > view modes: Icon view, multi-column view, list view, detailed list | > view, and so on. Right clicking on it, as with every other button in | > the toolbar, renders a toolbar menu. So all the button does is provide | > that tiny triangle. | > | > Wouldn't it make more sense if the button itself produced the view | > mode list? It would certainlt be much easier to use. | | click and hold the mouse key over the icon/button and the menu shows up, | but it might be indeed better to show the menu without having to press | and hold. I don't know if it's possible to implement.
I just experimented: click and hold the button down and do nothing else and it never appears, or at least not in the first 90 seconds, after which I got bored and let go. (More easily demonstrated with a trackball, where you can hold the button down all day long without moving the pointer at all.) However, click and hold and move the mouse a little and it shows up instantly. Which strongly suggests that it's a bug, doncha think? Who would ever program that on purpose? What would be the rationale?
As to whether or not it can be fixed -- how could it not be? Registering a mouse click has to be easier to program than a registering mouse click plus moving the mouse around a little. And clicking any other button in the toolbar *does something,* the view mode being the lone exception.
dep via tde-users wrote:
I just experimented: click and hold the button down and do nothing else and it never appears, or at least not in the first 90 seconds, after which I got bored and let go.
Sorry I got distracted - the middle mouse button - press, hold and drag (left or right)
On 2025-09-01 17:14:12 deloptes via tde-users wrote:
dep via tde-users wrote:
In the toolbar there is the view mode button, but if you click on it nothing happens. You have to click on the unbelievably small -- I've never hit it on the first try -- down triangle that pawns a menu of view modes: Icon view, multi-column view, list view, detailed list view, and so on. Right clicking on it, as with every other button in the toolbar, renders a toolbar menu. So all the button does is provide that tiny triangle.
Wouldn't it make more sense if the button itself produced the view mode list? It would certainlt be much easier to use.
click and hold the mouse key over the icon/button and the menu shows up, but it might be indeed better to show the menu without having to press and hold. I don't know if it's possible to implement.
It would be nice to eliminate that delay. I suppose that it is a legacy of early KDE (KDE2?), like the semi-integrated colours settings in Kmail.
Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.6 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.4 tde-config: 1.0
On 2025-08-31 18:50:48 dep via tde-users wrote:
I use Konqueror as a file manager, as I imagine most people do.
In the toolbar there is the view mode button, but if you click on it nothing happens. You have to click on the unbelievably small -- I've never hit it on the first try -- down triangle that pawns a menu of view modes: Icon view, multi-column view, list view, detailed list view, and so on. Right clicking on it, as with every other button in the toolbar, renders a toolbar menu. So all the button does is provide that tiny triangle.
Wouldn't it make more sense if the button itself produced the view mode list? It would certainlt be much easier to use.
I'm sure there was a reason for doing it as it is currently done, but that reason seems to have disappeared.
On my machine, the buttons with the little down arrow will activate if I click and hold them for about a second (which is irritating, because they're the only buttons that behave this way). The others are the Up (directory) and View Filter (in the Extras toolbar); there may be more on other toolbars I don't use).
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