I'm having a small problem with Dolphin (v:1.3; KDE 4.3.1), which I can't seem to find the answer to.

When choosing to rename a file, I'd like the file's original name to remain there, ready to be edited (as was the case in Konqueror), rather than it disappearing completely. In Dolphin, when choosing to rename (via right-click menu, or by pressing F2), the file's previous name disappears completely. Because of this, even if I only want to change, say one or two characters, I end up having to retype the entire filename. Does anyone know how to change this behaviour?

Thanks in advance for any help.

That's how it works here (KDE 4.3.2)

I am also using dolphin. But i am using KDE 3.5.

In my dolphin ...if i press f2 then a new prompting windows opens. there already existing name is selected. and it is ready for new name. see the image attached.

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I think , your KDE version making it different with others.

Thanks to the both of you for the quick replies. How odd that it works differently for you. Perhaps it is related to my particular combination of versions, as you say. I've had a look through the Dolphin documentation and searched through various sources, but to no avail, which may suggest this is some kind of "quirk". The only vaguely related information I found in the Dolphin documentation was the facility to switch to "inline" renaming; this however, produces the same results.

This is the first time I've used Dolphin, but previously, in all the time I used Konqueror it worked in the "edit" way (as per your screenshot), rather than the "delete" way I'm experiencing now. I'm at a bit of a loss on this, really - it's a relatively small issue, but quite annoying. Oh well.

Suse 11.2 .. Dolphin.

Right click on a file → select 'Copy'

Next : Right click on "an empty place"
> > 'Paste One File' .. and write a new file name
in the 'Pop up dialog window'.

That would be the result you want, isnt it ?
.....

Of course the command line is easier ? : cp file1 file123 .
.....

Thanks for the idea, but it produces the same result (empty text box). In any case, with other people experiencing different behaviour to me, I thought this might be a bug, so looked it up on the KDE Bugzilla and it had indeed been reported and appears to be being addressed. It seems it's related to having SCIM installed. I need to use SCIM, so will just switch back to Konqueror for my file manager until the bug is fixed. Thanks again.