[KDE Usability] Review Request 123658: If double-click is on empty area, then invoke back.

[Frank Reininghaus]

> On Mai 6, 2015, 8:17 nachm., andreas kainz wrote:
> > Hi I made a bug report about this behavior because it is the only missing feature in dolphin. and my bug report was a duplicate. so also other users want this feature.
> > 
> > I know it from qttabbar an qt extension for the windows explorer (file manager). feel free to test it there.
> > 
> > why I think it was a realy good feature:
> > - because you can navigate with the mouse in the main window without using buttons or the keyboard
> > - it's fast
> > 
> > I never had problems with qttabbar that I change the folder when I would select an file but maybe you can offer this feature only in areas where there are realy no folders/files. most of the time you have less files in an folder that it would be no problem to click in an empty area.
> > 
> > please add this feature. at least optional with an setting.
> 
> Martin Klapetek wrote:
>     Fwiw, should this feature get in, it also must get into the file dialogs (KFileDialog) so that those are consistent.

I agree with Martin - file manager and file dialog should aim to provide similar functionality and similar workflows to the user.

I strongly object the idea to add a setting for this. New settings make the settings dialog harder to use and the code harder to maintain. Therefore, we must ask ourselves if there would be a good reason for disabling the feature. Ideally, users who do not want to use the feature would simply not double-click on the empty area, and if the feature did not have any other effects, then it simply would not matter to them if the feature exists or not - no setting needed :-)

As far as I can see, the only valid reason for allowing the user to disable the feature is to work around the "double click on a folder" bug that Ashish mentioned. But adding a setting is never the right way to work around bugs. The correct solution is to fix the bug.


- Frank


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On Mai 6, 2015, 7:41 nachm., Ashish Bansal wrote:
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> (Updated Mai 6, 2015, 7:41 nachm.)
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> Review request for Dolphin, KDE Usability and Emmanuel Pescosta.
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> Bugs: 307505
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307505
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> Repository: dolphin
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> Description
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> If mouse double click is done on the empty area, then invoke the go back to previous directory in the history.
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> Diffs
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>   src/kitemviews/kitemlistcontroller.h b8a93ed 
>   src/kitemviews/kitemlistcontroller.cpp 1c86ff0 
>   src/views/dolphinview.cpp d302358 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123658/diff/
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> Testing
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> Doesn't works sometimes.
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> Thanks,
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> Ashish Bansal
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