[dolphin] [Bug 494125] Double-clicking a file *deselects* it after opening

[Thomas Bertels]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494125

--- Comment #31 from Thomas Bertels <tbertels at gmail.com> ---
It's kinda strange that Dolphin has removed a behaviour which used to make it
work like the main file managers:
Gnome Nautilus: https://youtu.be/D_YqONWOT0M?t=93
MacOS Finder: https://youtu.be/TY_ViHj4gFU?t=75
Windows Explorer: https://youtu.be/sf4l4YGXGt0?t=850

All this just because a single user complained repeatedly about it in bug
424723 while talking about possible data loss.

I don't understand how someone can miss the parent folder being selected when
going back up a level, since it's in the middle of the view.

The commit[1] also removed an other standard behaviour which is that a file
gets selected when we open it by a double click.
Note that the user in question didn't complain about that behaviour.

About the subject of "data loss", here are two examples with the current
behaviour:
- A user wants to clean up their files by first opening each of them to
double-check and then removing them if needed. The file that the user just
opened isn't selected so the user could then remove the wrong one.
- A user wants to clean up their folders by first opening each of them(...):
same thing as above.

[1]https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/commit/122fee5625f0285ec4ebda79162c72390989eb2a

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