Bug 157589

Summary:	The "Edit Location" shortcut should select the text in the location bar
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Hans Chen <hanswchen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Hans Chen 2008-02-10 11:48:44 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Currently, the "Edit Location" shortcut (F6) only focuses the location bar. In Konqueror, the equivalent shortcut (Ctrl+L) also cleared the bar, making it easier to start typing a new URL. However, that is not always preferable; personally I like the way e.g. Firefox does - Select the current text in the location bar.

Comment 1 Peter Penz 2008-02-16 23:05:57 UTC

SVN commit 775977 by ppenz:

let F6 also select the whole text of the URL navigator to stay consistent with Konqueror and Firefox

BUG: 157589

 M  +5 -0      dolphinmainwindow.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=775977

Comment 2 Hans Chen 2008-02-21 17:33:54 UTC

That's great!

If we want to stay consistent with Konqueror and Firefox, shouldn't default shortcut for "Edit Location" be Ctrl+L? (Instead of F6).

I thought this wasn't serious enough to require a new bug report, but in the future, would you prefer to have individual reports for these kind of "bugs"?

Comment 3 Peter Penz 2008-02-21 20:03:09 UTC

Hmm, Ctrl+L in Konqueror deletes the whole URL (KDE 3 + KDE 4), F6 in Konqueror behaves now equally like in Dolphin (-> selects whole URL). Also in Firefox F6 selects the whole URL. So I'm not sure...

Comment 4 Hans Chen 2008-02-21 21:45:15 UTC

Oh, so Konqueror had that feature - never knew about it. In that case, I think F6 is fine. Didn't know F6 selected the URL in Firefox too.