Bug 135633

Summary: auto-select policy -- remove / rethink / redesign
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component: kcm_mouseAssignee: Marie Loise Nolden <nolden>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: adaptee, devriese, finex, grundleborg, kde
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Maciej Pilichowski 2006-10-14 13:21:49 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

I am not sure about intentions. Is auto-select means

a) preselect -- great for handicapped people so they can see the mouse cursor is well positioned so the can safely click

b) real-select -- in other words auto-click which triggers everything in path of mouse cursor

If (b), it is completely useless -- try it with Gwenview on something like PIII 500Mhz. If (a), great, but then even KDE "visit-card", Konqueror violates this policy. Btw. if (b) the Konq. also violates it :-) because it works for icons on the right, but not for icons in the tree and I buy you a six-pack beer if you explain such behaviour to any KDE beginner (and this policy should help such people -- beginners or handicapped).

Anyway, please rename the name of this policy and/or please rethink it (according to "help" select means real-select, which is pretty surprising because there is no gain, only problems with mad LMB triggering).
Comment 1 FiNeX 2009-09-07 15:56:39 UTC 
Hi Maciej, what about this? I've not really well understand this bug, is this valid on KDE4 too? If yes, can you explain better the situation? Thanks :-)
Comment 2 Maciej Pilichowski 2009-09-07 20:46:30 UTC 
Shame on me for writing such ambiguous report! :-(

System settings -> mouse & keyboard -> mouse -> single click -> auto select.

In KDE4 it simply does not work at all, i.e. after using this option there is no effect, for example in Konqueror/Dolphin.
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2011-07-25 18:49:10 UTC 
*** Bug 71929 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Jekyll Wu 2012-04-16 04:40:11 UTC 
See bug 298174, where the dolphin maintainer clearly states there is no intention to support this option.
Comment 5 David Edmundson 2016-09-28 23:07:51 UTC 
This doesn't exist in the mouse KCM anymore. Arguably your bug is now fixed.