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

[kaminata]

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

--- Comment #32 from kaminata <linux_rulez at abv.bg> ---
(In reply to Felix Ernst from comment #29)
> Yes, this is something we want to change regardless of this bug report here. This is tracked in https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/>issues/53. Just needs someone to put the work in.

Which doesn't happen for a year yet you made the change and nobody can see the
underlined items.

(In reply to Felix Ernst from comment #29)
>A user just needs to click the semi-transparent selection rectangle on top of a file icon instead of clicking the file itself in double-click mode, >and then the file is added to the selection instead of becoming solely selected by itself. Press "Delete" or a muscle memory "Shift+Delete" >into "Enter" then, and instead of only permanently deleting the file the user just clicked on, any previously selected files will also be >permanently deleted. All of that only because the user clicked a selection rectangle by accident whose existence they might not even be >aware of because it only appears on hover!

There's an option for selection rectangles in Windows as well, still there's no
such measures like this.

(In reply to Felix Ernst from comment #29)
>I understand the frustration, but we really need to find a solution that prevents such accidental data loss to happen. Sorry about the break >of muscle memory, but other file managers might for example not have such selection rectangles that allow accidentally adding files to a >selection.

There's a reason no other file manager or OS do it this way. If it's so
important to you, make it an option. and everyone will be happy.

(In reply to flan_suse from comment #31)
> More inconsistency with implementation and messaging:
> 3. Select and delete multiple files in a folder. Now the next file in the
> display is arbitrarily *selected*, which is at risk of "accidental" deletion
> with the keyboard.
> 
> 
> Since this change landed, it not only adds friction to using the file
> browser, but it's not even consistent with the principle of "minimize
> accidental deletions".

Yes, I also noticed that after this change has landed. Now, when you delete a
file or multiple files, the adjacent file is explicitly selected, and you might
accidentally delete it, which is quite dangerous.

Felix, please revert this change until it's more cleare if it's wanted or not.
Thank you!

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