Bug 270522

Summary:	browsing directory contents with the space bar
Product:	[Applications] kfile	Reporter:	Johannes Tophøj Rasmussen <johannes.tophoj>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Johannes Tophøj Rasmussen 2011-04-09 19:01:58 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.3) 
OS:                Linux

one can start typing the name of a file on the keyboard and the directory focus is moved to the matching files. Very rarely does a file start with a space. Therefore pressing space should scroll down the directory content as it is commonly does in internet browsers.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-04-13 16:34:08 UTC

This would be inconsistent with everything. The file dialog idn't a web browser, and the "space to scroll one page down" paradigm is only used for apps that display static paginated or linear content that does not respond to text input. None of that describes the file open/save dialog.