[dolphin] [Bug 453700] dolphin in detailed view open files and folders also if I click elsewhere on the line not only on the filename

[Mathias]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453700

--- Comment #34 from Mathias <mathias at public-ip.org> ---
(In reply to Felix Ernst from comment #33)
> (In reply to Mathias from comment #31)
> > I've been using 1) single-click and 2) split screens in 3) detailed list
> > view for ages,
> It seems like people with this combination are disrupted the most by the
> full row activation area. 

Full ack. And there's a pattern here I guess. In this setup you have the most
information per square inch, control, speed and flexibility in sorting etc. It
is not only about the probably amusing fact that people like me are used to a
Midnight (or Norton;)) Commander style, detailed-listed, split view since the
days before graphical UIs became common. It is about productivity. Same thing
with single click: Twice as fast ;) 
I sincerely hope KDE and Dolphin keeps us in mind in the development. Because
this is great software I am very thankful for.

> > and I use the navigation buttons (up and back)
> Clicking "Up" can be replaced by clicking the enclosing folder in the
> location bar 

Not if you are using an editable location bar, like me (but this is probably
something where you could actually get me to change a behaviour, because it is
only one click away to switch to a clickable folder hierarchy).

> I always click the "Back" button on my mouse to go "Back" without having to
> change the active view first. But not everyone does this or has such mouse
> side buttons so changing the active view first is necessary for many users.

In fact, I do have these side buttons under my thumb and use them a lot.

> > or the mouse controls a lot to navigate through my folder structure.
> Not quite sure what you mean. Mouse controls work without changing the
> active view first so this shouldn't have become any more difficult. 

I mean exactly the side button of the mouse you mentioned. And yes, I do not
have to change the active view in this case because the mouse-back-button
always affects the view pane that is under the cursor. Which is great and
perfectly intuitive.
But still: on a laptop with a touchpad but without multi-button-mouse dolphin's
back-button is still needed - along with an easy way to change the active view
of a split screen.

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