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 Dolphin is Plasma’s default file manager. It aims to improve usability at the user interface level. Dolphin focuses only on being a file manager whereas Konqueror, which was KDE’s default file
 manager in KDE 3 and can still be used for file management, is a universal viewer for many file types. This design approach allows the developers to concentrate on optimizing the user interface for
 the specific task of file management. Please report any problems or feature requests to the Dolphin author via the bug report dialog. This is accessible either from the Control button at the right of the toolbar in the default mode without menubar; or from Help → Report Bug... menu of the application, if the menubar is shown.

Dolphin modified by veliki_rzav

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Dolphin is Plasma’s default file manager. It aims to improve usability at the user interface level. Dolphin focuses only on being a file manager whereas Konqueror, which was KDE’s default file
manager in KDE 3 and can still be used for file management, is a universal viewer for many file types. This design approach allows the developers to concentrate on optimizing the user interface for
the specific task of file management. Please report any problems or feature requests to the Dolphin author via the bug report dialog. This is accessible either from the Control button at the right of the toolbar in the default mode without menubar; or from Help → Report Bug... menu of the application, if the menubar is shown.

Dolphin User Interface
The elements of the default user interface are:
• The toolbar, which can be used for quick access to frequently used actions. The toolbar can be customized by clicking it with the right mouse button and choosing Configure Toolbars...
from the context menu, with Configure Toolbars... from the Control button at the right of the toolbar or via Settings → Configure Toolbars... from the main menu.
Toolbar items where the icon is sufficient for knowing the command do not have text alongside the icons. This can be changed by a right mouse button click and selecting the item
text below Show Text. The Control button at the right side of the toolbar is only displayed if the menubar is hidden.
• The location bar, which always displays the path to the current folder. It can be switched between two different modes, see the section on the location bar for details.
• The view, which shows all files and folders in the current folder.
• The Places panel, which provides quick access to bookmarked locations and disks or other media.
If desktop search and file indexing are enabled in the Desktop Search module in the System Settings the panel provides Recently Saved items and allows you to search for Documents, Images, Audio Files and Video.
• The status bar. It displays the name, size and type of the file which is currently hovered over with the mouse, or the number and size of the files which are selected. At the right, there is a zoom slider that allows you to adjust the size of the icons in the view.
• The menubar (hidden by default), which provides access to all commands and configuration options. See the Command Reference for a list of all menu commands. The menubar can be toggled with Show Menubar (Ctrl+M) from the Settings menu or the Control button. If the menubar is hidden, all its actions are available from the Control button.
• The additional Information, Folders and Terminal panels are hidden by default, for more information see Panels.

The Dolphin View
The view displays all files and folders in the current folder. These items can be accessed or manipulated in different ways:
• A file or folder can be opened by clicking it with the left mouse button (or double-clicking, if Double-click to open files and folders is enabled in the System Settings in the Input Devices
→ Mouse module.
• Clicking any item or the white area around the items with the right mouse button opens a context menu which provides access to many frequently used actions for the item or the current
folder, respectively.
• If the left mouse button is pressed on an item, but not immediately released, the item can be dragged and dropped in another folder in the current view or in another Dolphin view (in
another Dolphin window or in the same window if the view is split, see below) to move or copy it or to create a symbolic link. Items can even be dropped in another application to open
them in that application.
Dolphin remembers the history of visited folders. To navigate backward or forward in the history, the corresponding buttons in the toolbar can be used: The Back and Forward buttons in the toolbar can be used to navigate in the history. If you click with the middle mouse button the item in the history is opened in a new tab thus keeping the cu.rrent tab with its content.

Dolphin View Appearance
All the settings discussed below and other options concerning, e.g. the sorting of the files in the current folder, can also be modified in the View menu and in the View Properties dialog. By
default, these settings are remembered for each folder separately. This behavior can be changed in the ‘General’ section of the settings.

Selecting Items in the View
There are several ways to select items in the view. Once a group of items is selected, all actions, such as Cut, Copy, Move to Trash, and drag and drop operations, affect all selected items.

Selecting Items Using the Mouse
• You can press the left mouse button somewhere in the view and draw a rectangle around a group of items before releasing the button. This will select all items in the rectangle and clear
the previous selection. If the Shift key is pressed during the selection process, the previous selection is kept.
• If the Ctrl key is pressed while an item is clicked with the left mouse button, the selection state of this item is toggled. If the Ctrl key is pressed while a rectangle is drawn around a group of
items as described above, the selection state of all items in the rectangle will be toggled.
• If the Shift key is pressed while an item is clicked with the left mouse button, all items between the previous current item and the clicked item will be selected.
• If Show selection marker is enabled in the ‘Behavior’ tab of the General section of the settings, a small + or - button appears in the top left corner of the item which is currently hovered over
with the mouse. Clicking this sign selects or deselects the item, respectively.

Selecting Items Using the Keyboard
• If an arrow key, Page Up, Page Down, Home, or End is pressed, the new current item is selected, and the previous selection is cleared.
• If the Ctrl key is held while one of the above keys is pressed, the selection remains unchanged.
• If the Shift key is held while one of the above keys is pressed, all items between the previous current item and the new current item will be selected.
• If Ctrl+Space is pressed, the selection state of the current item is toggled.
• Ctrl+A selects all items in the view.
• Ctrl+Shift+A toggles the selection state of all items in the view.
• Select a file or folder by typing the first few letters of its name and the first matching item is selected. To clear the selection and cancel the keyboard search press Esc or wait longer than
the timeout of 1 second.

Panels
Dolphin allows a number of panels to be placed next to the view. These can be enabled in View → Panels. By unlocking the panels and clicking and dragging a panel title, the panel can be
moved to a different position, even outside the window.

Places
The Places panel is located at the left of the window by default. The Places panel shows any locations you have bookmarked. It also shows any disk or media attached to the computer,
recently accessed items and allows you to search for certain type of files. The order of these entries can be changed by drag and drop.
The easiest way to add a folder to the Places panel is to drag it and drop it in the panel. Moreover, you can click inside the panel with the right mouse button and choose Add Entry... from the
context menu. The first procedure creates a system wide bookmark, the second procedure can be used to add the current path of the location bar or any desired folder or device. A dialog
opens where label, location and icon can be edited and the usage of this entry can be restricted to Dolphin. A right mouse button click opens the context menu to edit, add, hide or remove entries and
change the icon size to one of the predefined values or lock/unlock the panels. The context menu has an action to open the entry in a new tab. Devices can be unmounted using
the context menu.

Information
The Information panel shows extended information about the selected items(s) or about the current folder or the file which is currently hovered over with the mouse, including size, type, and
date of last modification. It also features a large preview of the selected item and allows you to assign a rating, tags, and comments to it.

source: docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/applications/dolphin/dolphin.pdf

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