[GLLUG] Konqueror File Browser Shortcut Missing

[Matt Graham]

On Monday 02 May 2005 09:49, after a long battle with technology, Marr 
wrote:
> On Monday 02 May 2005 09:29am, Matt Graham wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 May 2005 13:15, after a long battle with technology,
> > Marr wrote:
> > > a particular feature missing from the newer version of Konqueror
> > > I used to be able to strike one or more keys which represented
> > > the first 'n' characters of the name of a file which I wanted to
> > > Unfortunately, it seems as if that feature has disappeared
> > ?  Works fine here, KDE 3.3.2 (Gentoo).  Maybe it's a
> It seems that it won't work when the files are sorted by the
> 'Modified' field (which is the usual case for me). Actually, it works
> in that case, but it's using the date/time-stamp text in the
> 'Modified' column rather than the filename -- ick!

Ah.  Yes, if you sort by "modified", then it behaves as you describe.  I 
think this was intended as a Feature.  I didn't notice this at first 
because I have everything sorted by name by default, and if I change it 
to "modified", my hand's on the mouse anyway, so mousing over to the 
file I want is easier than typing characters.

If I were you, I'd tell the KDE team about this and suggest making it 
behave the way you want it to.  That behavior fits the Law of Least 
Surprise better (I think).

> Aside: The funny thing is, I recall surmising that (as stupid as it
> seems to me) the feature might not work unless sorting was done by
> the 'Name' field. I'm sure I tried that and saw that it didn't work,
> but now when I do it, it _does_ seem to work so I guess I'm just
> losing my sanity.... :^)

Yep.  Computers are like the Necronomicon; the more you look into them, 
the less sanity you have :-] .

> Now if only I could get KDE to revert to the "old" behavior.... :^(

I think the only way to do this is probably to edit Konqueror's source 
and recompile.  Or make a suggestion to the KDE team and hope it gets 
into KDE 3.4-rc1 or whatever....

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