Bug 236039

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

When using the keyboard to navigate in Dolphin's column view, the Enter key does not behave as expected.

Expected behaviour: use the arrow keys to select a directory in the current column, hit Enter to open the directory in the next column over.  Repeat the process to navigate through the directory tree.  Location of the mouse pointer should have no effect on navigation.

Actual behaviour: arrow keys work as expected, however Enter key only works to descend one directory level, after which the Enter key stops functioning.  The arrows key still work to highlight the next directory you wish to open, but hitting Enter has no effect.
You must move your mouse into the column that contains the directory you wish to open before Enter has any effect.
This must be done for ascending or descending tree navigation.

This functionality has worked on-and-off for 4.0 and 4.1, and I seem to remember it working properly for all of 4.2 and 4.3.
However as soon as the 4.4.x revisions started coming out I noticed the problem, and it has persisted ever since.
I thought this was a problem with the Kubuntu packages I was using, but when 10.4 came out and this problem was still there, I verified with someone in the #kde freenode channel who is using a freshly compiled KDE SVN trunk version that this behaviour is still present.