Dolphin should be able to preview audio files by default.

this is a request to support ctrl+z when an item is moved from "somewhere" to the Bin in Dolphin.

Note: Perhaps this has been added in nautilus, I am using KDE at present, and its version of nautilus may be old (2.30.1).

Suffice it to say, this is an elusive (at best) feature that i really miss from Windows. It had an option when you right-clicked an image file, to 'Set as Background' or similar. In Dolphin and Nautilus, there are no options for 'setting as desktop background'. I know that there is a plugin for nautilus to allow this, but the end user wouldn't know of it. And in KDE, you just about have to use the 'Desktop Activity Settings' module to change your wallpaper. Even Gwenview lacks this option... while M$ Picture and Fax Viewer has it. The current 'desktop settings' apps in gnome and kde have only the option to import images one by one. It would be useful to allow importing an entire folder, that the program would find all the image files from, and show them in the list.

Sorry to rant, I love all the *buntus, it's just a small issue anyhow.

-NinjaNumberNine

I often want to copy one or more files that reside deep in a directory tree in different subdirs and keep the whole directory structure even on the destination path.
But the destination path should only hold the specific files i wanted to copy, not all that are on the source path, so I cannot simply copy the whole dir.

ATM it is very uneasy to edit system files as root with a GUI.
E.g. if you want to edit files in /etc, /boot/ etc... you have to go to the console, get root and edit the files either with nanno or with "sudo gedit" (GNOME) or "sudo kate" (KDE).

It would be a good idea to integrate a "Administrator mode" button or something like this with policykit backend into nautilus/dolphin.

I think for nautilus is something lika that underways, but for dolphin not.
To access root-only directories a question while entering the dir would be ok, but for editing files e.g this is not enough.

Other solution would be - every time I don't have the rights to do something (save /etc/samba/smb.conf e.g.) the systema asks me for the password.

In Dolphin one of the default options for a folder or file is to encrypt it. However kgpg is not installed by default so when you try it tells you that it cant encrypt it.

Personally, I dont think there's any need for an encryption option by default, but whether or not there's a need for it, if youre going to offer it by default surely it should be a real availability.

i have seen that you can set icons for files with specific extensions, yet, as a user who is still warming up to ubuntu,i miss the feature in windows where you could go in the settings of a file and change the icon for just that specific file without having to have every file that has that specific name with that specific icon (for example have a file in my home folder titled Test.ext with icon 1 and another file in my documents folder with the same name using icon 2.) i noticed you could do this with folders but would truly appreciate the ability to do this with individual files.

I often work with files and directories with Dolphin and have the need to rename a lot of files in the same manner.
pyRename is e.g. a nice tool for that, easy to use and with powerful features.
However, it sucks to just go to the k-menu, open pyRename, navigate it to the directory that I have already open in Dolphin, and then, finally be able to start renaming.

this would be very nice

when you open dolphin you see your home folder

when you open konqueror you see some shortcuts

i would like to put shortcuts to my favourite folders, files, places etc, as well as link to bluetooth phone

in dolphin there is a tab with saved places, this could be larger icons on beginning screen

on this screen there could be also an information about diskspace, pendrives, plugged usb devices etc

usually when i use dolphin i open about 3-5 places on local hardrive, via fish and ftp, this feature would save me a lot of time

So far, you can only select files from one directory at a time.
However I often intend to copy/move/delete/whatever more than one files from a complex directory tree structure at once. Also files that reside in differrent subdirs.
I do not want to copy the whole subdir! I do not want to copy them in several steps. I want to select these files that reside in several subdirs in one step and copy them in one job.
(this combined to the Advanced Copy Function 'Copy With Path' makes it very easy to selectively copy path/file structures to other disks, external media, players etc. e.g.)