- Split window, so you can have two explorers right next to each other.
- Tabs
- If you drag a file/folder into another folder, you get prompted about “copying or moving?”
In terms of health, I also appreciate that many of the devs frequent the kde subreddit, and they all seem really chill and receptive.
I still see some weird artefacts / behaviour in Dolphin, notably around the sizing of the quick-access panels on the left, after window resizing, or display switching (effectively causing the former).
The copy/move option was present in Konqueror also, along with the same ctrl/shift modifier option to force copy / move without the pop-up.
FWIW with Microsoft Windows, for as long as I can remember, in Explorer you can right-mouse drag directory entries around, to trigger a similar copy/move pop-up. A little-known feature, but increasingly handy as Microsoft continues its war on its own users and obfuscates actual locations & paths, with the default move-if-on-the-same-drive / copy-if-not becoming harder to intuit due to these location abstractions.
Back when I tested them out (years ago, so not relevant today, still): Considering dependencies (if not running KDE), but even then Dolphin always seemed to do something quite not intuitively for me. Can't name examples anymore.
Different people, different tools.
About the menu, it is nice, but not unique. Windows' Explorer, for example, shows it when dragging with the right mouse button. Options include copying, moving, zipping and actions from any registered shell handlers.
That said, I think KDE is still the best desktop environment across all the operating systems I've tried.
"Just use your window manager" - and have two separate Dolphin windows? I mean, yeah. But it's very nice to have everything contained in one window. Right now I have five Dolphin tabs, four of which have split windows (I don't NEED this setup, but I like it).