[dolphin] [Bug 465347] Selection marker is present when single-click selects items

[Felix Ernst]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465347

--- Comment #5 from Felix Ernst <felixernst at kde.org> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #3)
> JFYI "INTENTIONAL" is more appropriate than "NOT A BUG" since this is
> currently considered an intentional behavior.

Understood. 👍

(In reply to Oliver Beard from comment #4)
> (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2)
> > It might make sense do to the same thing in Dolphin.
> 
> I concur - users who double-click to open are well accustomed to dragging or
> using ctrl+click to make a selection. I hope this is considered.

Ctrl+click is a hidden feature. Many (IMHO most) users don't know about it.
Even if they know about dragging a selection rectangle, without the selection
markers they won't be able to select two files diagonally next to each other
without also selecting other files in between. It seems very important to me
that users are able to do this, so hiding selection markers and hindering them
seems like it would definitely be a step in the wrong direction.

…at least this would have been the case before we had the selection mode
feature. We could deprecate selection markers in favour of the selection mode
but this is a bigger discussion that IMHO needs to be discussed separate from
this bug report.

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2)
> As a data point, in Plasma Folder view, the selection marker buttons
> automatically disappear with no option to bring them back when you use
> double-click, and I can't recall getting any complaints about this. It might
> make sense do to the same thing in Dolphin.

Plasma Folder view is the name for using folders on the desktop, right? It
makes total sense to me that we didn't get complaints about this because that
view is less likely to be used for manipulating/managing/moving groups of
files. Selecting specific files among others is probably not a typical workflow
there. I assume most use it to keep specific files or folders around, and not
for e.g. deleting a specific subset of files within a group of other files.
That's IMO the reason why not many people are bothered by this. I am quite
certain this would be a different story for Dolphin.

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