[dolphin] [Bug 492404] Dolphin doesn't select/mark the parent folder when Up or Back is being pressed

[George]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492404

George <beggginer at abv.bg> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from George <beggginer at abv.bg> ---
You call it a feature, some may call it a regression or a bug. I call it
counterintuitive. Windows File Explorer works like this since 1995. If you feel
like it's an improvement, by all means, offer it for NEW users who don't have
the muscle memory of navigating directories for the last 30 years, but include
an option/checkmark so people can still manually select the old (legacy)
behaviour even if it isn't the default one. For example:

[x] highlight and select parent directory when going back/up

This is especially annoying when using the keyboard to navigate. Going up from
a directory should not mean rebooting your computer and starting from scratch.
There are directory trees with thousands of branches and that makes it unusable
in any view, including tree.

Nautilus and our friends from Gnome, have adopted the following behaviour for
going back in folders:

A small message saying "$directory_name" is selected (containing x items)

Deleting files by accident is a permission problem, but foremost a PEBCAK and
not something a file manager should be solving. Just my 2 cents.

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