Summary: | Clicking empty space in dolphin launches files | ||
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Product: | [Applications] dolphin | Reporter: | Christoph Wiesen <cwiesen> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Peter Penz <peter.penz19> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | sven.burmeister |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 16.12.2 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Christoph Wiesen
2007-09-07 21:12:37 UTC
Thanks for the report, the problem is that in Qt4 it is not possible to fix this without some dirty hacks on various places (also outside the scope of Dolphin). Although initially I liked the old behavior in a better way, I find the new behavior quite comfortable in the meantime. Due to the highlighting effect it should be obvious for the user that clicking on it will launch the file. Anyway I leave this bug in the NEW state, let's see whether more user will complain about this... Bug 145358 and this one seem to be about the same issue. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 145358 *** The bugs are similar, I agree. Though depending on the focus of a possible implementation they could lead to very different results. Generally I'd like to point out, that there ought to be some obvious white space, that is not used to interact with a single file, but with the folder itself. Example: I might want to paste another file into the currently opened folder. For that you should be able to right-click any 'empty' space (I think that should be everything that is not a file's icon or filename) and paste the file via the context menu. Another example might be the creation of new folders. The columns 'size' and 'date' are currently considered such whitespace. Part of bug 145358 suggests, that clicking those areas would select the file. I'd just like to warn about that because of the above use-cases. Another case that comes to my mind now and is probalby more important is the selection of multiple files. Aaron told me: "the delegate can certain draw extra UI on/around the icon and click on those items can be used to launch/perform other actions." I do not think he would suggest ugly hacks. |