[dolphin] [Bug 452273] New full-row highlight effect makes some tasks more difficult

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452273

Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
             Status|REPORTED                    |CONFIRMED
            Summary|New behavior makes some     |New full-row highlight
                   |tasks more difficult        |effect makes some tasks
                   |                            |more difficult
                 CC|                            |fe.a.ernst at gmail.com,
                   |                            |meven29 at gmail.com,
                   |                            |nate at kde.org,
                   |                            |tom91136 at gmail.com

--- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> ---
> For example, now it is not possible to deselect everything by clicking anywhere in the empty space.
> I think the only option now it to use the keyboard. I can imagine some users that work mostly with 
> the mouse annoyed by this change.
In fact we tried our best to specifically handle this case, and there is some
whitespace to the left of the icons that you can click on. It's not as large as
the whole white area of the view, but it is still there. This area can be used
for dragging files too. However for the drag use case, it is quite small
indeed, and I can see how it's now difficult to drag something into the
currently-viewed folder, rather than one of its child folders.

I wonder if we should allow drags into the empty area of the folder as we used
to, to try to improve that use case It seems like a legitimate usability
regression.

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