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Does anyone else miss the old KDE behaviour when moving or copying a file via the context menu?

It used to be the case (up until KDE 4 I think) that a right-click on a file opened the context menu, from which you could choose "Move to" or "Copy to". Pop-up menus then appeared to guide you through your file structure. With complex directory structures, it used to be the case that new menus were opened to the left or right of the cursor, depending on where there was space on the screen.

The functionality itself still exists, but all menus are now opened to the right of the cursor. This looks messy to me (see screenshot). I would like this behaviour to be customisable.

I think it expands to whichever direction has enough screen real estate to accommodate it.
At least, that's how I see it from a few quick experimentations I just did.

the best in this case is to use "Move to" → "Browse" to have the pop up menu with the directories tree

Max wrote:I think it expands to whichever direction has enough screen real estate to accommodate it.
At least, that's how I see it from a few quick experimentations I just did.

Really?? That's not my experience. Always to the right, on both of my machines.

The screenshot I supplied would not have been possible if the behaviour worked as you suggest. So does it depend on some obscure bit of configuration or hardware?

I have the same behavior on my system, though I didn't quite noticed it until now.
Sometimes those pop-ups tople on each other making a mess until I have to start all over again.

When you have so much levels of this context menu opened up, one could think that such handling would be quite not ergonomic.
Also here the menus expand sometimes to the left when the right screen border has been reached, but somehow
this changes randomly, also taking into account horizontal cursor position over the last level of opened menus, it seems.

honnestly, if people were going to improve copy on KDe, I will say that having ultra copier by default would be a nice final solution.

Currently, it doesn't capture the CTRL C CTRL V event, but I hope it would be easier with expert KDE user like Mageia team to help the guy to finish this part.

After that, mageia would have an advanced copy tools much better than the default KDE one that really sucks, whatever the version..