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

[Felix Ernst]

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

Felix Ernst <felixernst at kde.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Dolphin doesn't select/mark |Dolphin doesn't select the
                   |the parent folder when Up   |parent folder when Up or
                   |or Back is being pressed    |Back is being pressed

--- Comment #17 from Felix Ernst <felixernst at kde.org> ---
(In reply to Zeroadhesion from comment #15)
> Also it seems that when navigating with keyboard there is no such issue,
> only mouse navigation is affected - where is the logic here?

It would indeed be safer if no file was selected while navigating using the
keyboard. However it would considerably slow down any keyboard-only file
management if every action (aside from activating) would first require an
explicit selection. This is different from a mouse-only workflow where
navigating and selecting are always two separate and explicit actions (except
for the two cases in which we used to implicitly select files which I have
removed through the behaviour change this bug report is about).

While using a keyboard to navigate the singular selection of the current item
is inherently safer because there is always at most one file selected which is
also in view. The user cannot forget about it and keep a selection scrolled
outside the view. Therefore one cannot encounter the scenario in which a user
1. emerges from a folder, 2. has that folder auto-selected, 3. scrolls down in
the view using the mouse scroll wheel, 4. Clicks on a files "selection marker"
to select it, 5. Deletes the newly selected file but also deletes the
auto-selected folder (which is no longer in view) by accident.

>Please consither reverting this change - it is rather irritating for me
>and I can see even more obstructing for others.
>Thank you.

The lack of feedback when clicking a file or emerging from a folder is indeed
not ideal.

We are discussing how to make it more obvious when a file is being activated or
which folder one emerges from without always selecting them. Other application
styles like "Fusion" or "MS Windows 9x" have a more visible styling for the
current item. A short animation is also being considered.

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