Bug 182040

Summary: dolphin doesn't use the "Automatically select icons" option, when using single click
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Panagiotis Papadopoulos <pano_90>
Component: generalAssignee: Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: KaiUweBroulik2, moz
Priority: NOR    
Version: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Panagiotis Papadopoulos 2009-01-26 23:35:20 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Unspecified

I recently noticed, that dolphin doesn't automatically select a file, when you hove over it long enough.
In the mouse systemsettings you can enable this option, and it seems like dolphin (and konqueror when used as file browser) don't "respect" this setting.
I don't know if this behaviour is intended, because of the little selection icons that appear, when you hove over a file, but I think it would be good, if dolphin "uses" KDEs settings.

thank you
Comment 1 cor 2009-08-16 06:21:14 UTC
This took me by surprise, too. 
Icons should definitely be getting selected on hover.

Also, I note the setting *does* apply in places where it definitely should not, like in the list views of the Kickoff menu editor, which makes editing quite a challenge.

Considering single-click to launch is the default behaviour these days, these issues should get a higher priority.
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2010-08-31 02:57:59 UTC
*** Bug 249564 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2010-08-31 03:33:42 UTC
Related (or even a duplicate): bug 204886.
Comment 4 Kai Uwe Broulik 2010-08-31 03:38:39 UTC
I haven‘t even noticed that little option “automatically select icons” but dolphin doesn‘t give a damn about that checkbox.
Comment 5 Peter Penz 2010-08-31 19:44:16 UTC
Marked as duplicate to 204886...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 204886 ***