[dolphin] [Bug 498447] Press a key, Next File Selected

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498447

--- Comment #10 from vmelkon at yahoo.com ---
“You may also use the Arrow Keys to go the next item and Shift+Arrow to select
multiple items. Isn't that the better approach?”

==No, because of the following situation that happens to me often:
I use the Alphabetlcal, case sensitive sorting mode in Dolphin.
It is a sorting mode that I like.
What it does is that folders come first and they are alphabetically sorted
(Names that start with numbers come first but I don’t care about that).
Files come after and they are alphabetically sorted.

So, if I have a large number of folders and files, with various names, let’s
say I have a folder named “george” selected, and I want to jump to a file that
starts with “a”, I press A on my keyboard, the selector jumps backwards and
selects a folder that starts with “a” (Let’s call it a100) instead of going
forward and selecting a file that starts with “a”.
As soon as I move the selector by pressing an arrow key and I press A on my
keyboard, the selector jumps backwards and selects the first folder that starts
with “a” (a100).
If I only use the arrow key as you suggested, I would have to pass through a
thousand files, do a lot of scrolling to find the files that start with “a”.

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