[dolphin] [Bug 453198] Switching to a pane in Details view mode results in a file opening

[Felix Ernst]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=453198

--- Comment #6 from Felix Ernst <fe.a.ernst at gmail.com> ---
Thanks for clarifying!

>The most relevant use-case to me is quickly changing the directory of the terminal widget to the other pane to do run a command in the directory opened in that pane. Or more generally, basically any toolbar action that only acts on a single pane, like searching, setting view mode, toggling previews, or closing the selected pane.

For all the example actions given above, aiming at the Side Padding is not even
required because dragging a small selection rectangle on a row would also work.
That would lead to marking an item as selected but for all of the examples you
have given that wouldn't matter. I see the point though that one might not want
to have an item selected even if there is no concrete downside to this
currently. We have the new Side Padding for this.

>The most relevant use-case to me is quickly changing the directory of the terminal widget to the other pane to do run a command in the directory opened in that pane.

Not sure if this is relevant here, but I'll mention that there is a way to do
this without even taking the hands of the keyboard i.e. "Ctrl+Shift+F4" to go
to the active view, then "Tab" (if the "Tab to change active pane" setting is
enabled), then "Ctrl+Shift+F4" again to go back to terminal. I admit though
that this isn't very discoverable so using the mouse for that seems easier. I
feel like we should change it so "Tab" as part of the normal tab order should
change to the next view and "Shift+Tab" should change back even if the "Tab to
change active pane" setting is disabled. That would make this slightly easier.

>For me personally, the solution of adding the "Leading Column Padding" was sufficient. I'm not the reporter of this duplicate issue, but for me personally all issues have been resolved with that.

Glad to hear that!

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