[dolphin] [Bug 465447] New: Make the Selection Mode optional

[popov895]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465447

            Bug ID: 465447
           Summary: Make the Selection Mode optional
    Classification: Applications
           Product: dolphin
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Selection Mode
          Assignee: kfm-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: popov895 at ukr.net
                CC: felixernst at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY

I suppose that the Selection Mode might be a very handy and useful for someone,
but not for me. Moreover, it tries to get out every chance it gets: pressing
Space/F2/Ctrl+C/Ctrl+X/Del constantly opens it, which is annoying and prevents
me from working normally. Also, the Space key I used to use to toggle the
selection of items, but now this key is used to open the Selection Mode: before
22.12.1 it was a keyboard shortcut that I could disable, but now it's hardcoded
and there's nothing I can do about it. This breaks my user experience and
violates one of the main advantages of Dolphin: its customizability.

The only solution I see is to make the Selection Mode optional. Ideally, it
would be great to move it to a separate plugin that can be enabled/disabled. I
don't know how it's technically possible/difficult to implement. Another way is
to simply add an option to enable/disable the Selection Mode in the Dolphin
settings. IMO the second way is very easy to implement, and also adding one
more option will not make the settings messy, but will make it much easier to
use Dolphin for users like me.

As for using the Space key as a keyboard shortcut: the Space key is a "basic"
key (like Enter, Escape, etc.) and should not be used for keyboard shortcuts
unless the user has explicitly set it.

I also did two polls on reddit regarding the Selection Mode and the results
should be of interest to you:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/10tm5jz/do_you_use_selection_mode_in_dolphin/
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/10tovgu/spacebar_behavior_in_dolphin/

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