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Dolphin gets a Columns view again (blogs.kde.org)

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[–] esc@piefed.social 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Yea, I've seen it when it was still available and there are other file managers with similar modes, it just doesn't make sense to me, that's it.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Agree. I think this Columns mode is for MacOS users, where the file manager works similar when I remember correctly (oh boy its 20 years ago on an iMac).

[–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 3 points 14 hours ago

I think it is only useful in a couple cases and it is definitely not often. For example I think it is just better to run a tree command with the options that one may need.

Its meant for files one does not remember they are there, or for a quick view of a directory one does not know the contents.

Don't know if that makes sense to your, but that is the best I can explain it.