Bug 243779

Summary:	Add a "gutter" to columns view, to allow initiation of rubberband file selection
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Ian <ifreecarve>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Ian 2010-07-06 18:16:55 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.2) 
OS:                Linux

I LOVE DOLPHIN; Columns view is the single biggest reason that I prefer KDE over Gnome.  However, the columns view could be even better.

One difficult task is selecting a large chunk of files from columns view.  Say that you have 300 pictures from your camera in a folder, and you want to select 20 or so from the middle of the set.  I'd like to be able to just rubberband them, but that is impossible.  The entire width of the column is a click target for the files themselves, so I have to select them one at a time.  

If you added a few pixels of "background" space on the far right or left of a column, I'd be able to initiate a click-drag action... currently, you can only perform this from the bottom of the column, and then only in situations where the list of files does not completely fill the vertical space.

Google recently did this to their calendar app, and it makes a big difference:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JE4qNpFW6Yk/SLZK9F5MW5I/AAAAAAAAADk/1eVPlTMXFV0/s1600-h/gutter.png

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Peter Penz 2010-07-28 20:36:05 UTC

Thanks for your input, I fully agree that this should be fixed. I hope I can fix this during KDE SC 4.6, but cannot promise a fixed schedule yet.

Comment 2 FiNeX 2010-08-15 14:04:53 UTC

I like this idea too :-)

Comment 3 Peter Penz 2010-10-09 13:28:49 UTC

SVN commit 1184177 by ppenz:

Use DolphinTreeView as implementation for the columns instead of QListView. This assures a consistent hover- and selection-behavior with the icons-view and details-view.

BUG: 242357
BUG: 243779


 M  +67 -50    dolphincolumnview.cpp  
 M  +5 -5      dolphincolumnview.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1184177