Bug 216400

Summary: improving Dolphin for one-click mouse
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Xavier Brochard <xavier>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: REOPENED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: akselmo, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Xavier Brochard 2009-11-27 17:32:44 UTC 
Version:           1.3 (using 4.3.2 (KDE 4.3.2), Debian packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.31-1-amd64

I'm using a one-click mouse and a limited keyboard for some days. It let me discover some problems with Dolphin. The mother of those problems is that user can't access the contextual menu.
I know that some things can be configured, like icons in toolbar but the point is that the default configuration, while usable, doens't provide all the tools one need to manage folders. 

Here are some ideas (I hope there are simple) to solve this issue:
1. put contextual menu (only the main part) in informations pane ;
2. display a contextual menu when a user do something ;
for example, when user is in trash folder and select something, display a menu with restore, delete, empty trash ;
3. put links with actions in top of folder window ; for example "Empty trash" when user is in trash folder.

This can't adress all the content of contextual menu, but it doens't matter: one can't hope to gain power with a one click mouse.
Comment 1 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:22:27 UTC 
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Comment 2 Akseli Lahtinen 2026-02-16 12:03:27 UTC 
Press alt and click an item to open context menu
Comment 3 Xavier Brochard 2026-02-16 18:18:51 UTC 
(In reply to Akseli Lahtinen from comment #2)
> Press alt and click an item to open context menu

It doesn't work here, either Debian 13 or Debian Sid. Pressing Alt has no effect on the click.