Bug 251639

Summary: Scroll position not remembered when going back in history in file open/save dialog
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio Reporter: Victor Yang <yangvp>
Component: Open/save dialogsAssignee: KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: bugseforuns, frank78ac, kdelibs-bugs-null, nate
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: 5.45.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Victor Yang 2010-09-18 09:44:57 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.2) 
OS:                Linux

In the open file dialog (I think it's the KFileDialog class), your scroll position among the list of files and directories is not remembered when going back in the browsing history -- the list always returns to the top.  This limits the functionality of the dialog for users who prefer using the keyboard to navigate instead of the mouse.

konqueror had a similar feature added/fixed:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193549

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open any kde application from which to open a file
2. choose "open" from the "file" menu
3. use the cursor keys to select a sub-folder that is not listed first
4. press alt-back -- or whatever your global short-cut is for "back"

Actual Results:  
The folder selected in step 3 is not highlighted or otherwise marked. Pressing any cursor key will immediately highlight the first directory.

Expected Results:  
The directory selected in step 3 is marked or highlighted so that pressing the cursor keys will resume navigation from where the user left off; similar to the behavior implemented for the following bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193549
Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2010-09-18 11:46:29 UTC
Thanks for the bug report! I can reproduce the issue in trunk.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-04-13 15:30:54 UTC
Still an issue in KDE Frameworks 5.45.