Bug 298174

Summary:	Dolphin does not respect KDE’s “Auto select icon after” setting
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Kai Uwe Broulik 2012-04-15 10:41:59 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.151 Chrome/18.0.1025.151 Safari/535.19
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[I am sure there was a bug report on this some long time ago, but I couldn’t find it]

When using KDE with the option to open files by single click, there is an option that icons get automatically selected after a certain amount of time hovering. This option is not applied to dolphin.
This is still true for the new view engine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Mouse settings, choose “Single click to open files and folders”
2. Enable “Automatically select icons” and choose some time
3. Open dolphin and hover a file
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens (okay, the tooltip appears, the selection plus appears etc :P)

Expected Results:  
The file gets selected.

It seems that option is broken in its entirety. Neither kfind, nor konqueror, nor systemsettings care about it.

Comment 1 Peter Penz 2012-04-15 21:57:38 UTC

Thanks for the report, but at least from a Dolphin point of view I don't intend to support this option: It has not been implemented since 4 years already and if I remember correctly it has been requested only by a handful people (I also cannot find the original report ;-))

In my personal opinion this option should completely be removed from the settings:
- As you say it seems the applications ignore this setting anyhow
- Judging from the feedback it seems the request for this option is very rare
- From a development-point-of-view this is not just a simple option to implement: It requires quite complex logic and I doubt it is worth the maintenance pain ;-)

I currently don't have the time to drive the request to remove this setting, probably you can bring this up on a forum so that probably another developer provides a patch (-> deprecating the option)?

Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2012-04-16 10:18:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 204886 ***