[dolphin] [Bug 419435] Ability to select file/folders in details view without clicking EXACTLY on the file's name.

[Jonathan Chun]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419435

--- Comment #2 from Jonathan Chun <unmonitored at jonathanchun.com> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Our own open/save dialog does this too, so it's a bit odd that Dolphin
> doesn't.
> 
> One concern is that this could make multi-selection using a box more
> difficult. Indeed, the file dialog doesn't even implement this at all.
> Nonetheless, the other file managers you mentioned seem to have solved this
> problem in a fairly elegant way:
> - click-and-drag upwards in an empty area = drag a selection box
> - click-and-drag sideways in an empty area = drag-and-drop
> - click-and-drag in any direction on an item's icon or label = drag-and-drop
> 
> I think it would make sense if Dolphin implemented this too (and then the
> file dialog, for that matter)

To add on to that, in most file browsers I've used, shift+click will select
from your current row and invert-select up to the row you shift+clicked on,
which eliminates the need for click+dragging altogether. I'm not saying it
shouldn't be implemented -- just providing an alternative answer to the
"selecting multiple files might be hard" problem.

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