[dolphin] [Bug 465489] Can no longer unassign "space" from activating selection mode

[Felix Ernst]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465489

Felix Ernst <felixernst at kde.org> changed:

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             Status|REPORTED                    |CONFIRMED
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--- Comment #1 from Felix Ernst <felixernst at kde.org> ---
>Prior to Dolphin 22.12 you could press space to toggle the selection

Space would select the first file, not toggle the selection. One couldn't
de-select a file with Space, but only with Ctrl+Space.

>which was convenient as a quick way to select the first element in a file listing.

This can still be done using Ctrl+Space. Do you think you could get used to
pressing Ctrl+Space the same way you got used to pressing Space to select the
first file in a file listing?

There is a certain technical obstacle that makes it a bit difficult to
implement the Space shortcut being re-assignable. It is possible to implement
anyway (potentially not in a 100% bug-free manner though), but I currently
don't believe it is worth the extra code complexity/maintenance burden just so
users don't need to press the extra Ctrl key.

I also think that selecting the first file in a folder isn't really a general
enough task to warrant having the most easily triggerable keyboard shortcut.
After all, if one wants to act on any file other than the first, the arrow keys
to go there will already select the file in the process. Does this make sense
to you?

Another question: A lot of users want to have a quick preview feature similar
to Apple's Mac's Finder's QuickLook feature, that is also bound to Space there.
Would you be opposed to having that on the Space key?

>When searching if there was an existing bug, there appears to be others unhappy
>with the current situation, such as with this thread on Reddit:
>https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/10tovgu/spacebar_behavior_in_dolphin/

Well, the person who created that (Popov) disliked the selection mode in every
shape and marked the selection mode feature with a dislike button even before
it was assigned to any keyboard shortcut. He is now lobbying against this on
reddit and writes passive aggressive comments to me. I don't really think that
discussion points to many people having an issue with the new behaviour.
Everyone I talked with about the Space shortcut so far didn't know that they
could simply use the Ctrl+Space shortcut instead which is more generally useful
anyway because it also allows de-selecting.

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