Bug 304834

Summary: Move the selection marker slightly out of the icon to make the icon easier to click when the zoom level is small
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Franz Trischberger <franz.trischberger>
Component: view-engine: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: cfeck
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 16.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Franz Trischberger 2012-08-09 06:08:52 UTC 
The size of the selection icon depends on the zoom level of the view. Nevertheless there are hard-to-use zoomlevels. In a medium zoomlevel, the selector can cover up to 1/4 of the icon, in smaller zoomlevels it gets hard to click the selector.
What's even worse is the form of the "+": it has quite a lot of uncovered space in the right bottom. I have a friend who can get really mad, when he accidently hits that area, because he just don't know the sensible area is a square and not the "+". 

I want to propose to move the selection icon slightly out of the icon. There is plenty of unused space around the icon. In order to make sure the connection between the file icon and the selection icon can be recognized, a border could be drawn around the them, possibly including the filename.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2012-08-09 10:36:15 UTC 
Thanks for the report.

(In reply to comment #0)
> I want to propose to move the selection icon slightly out of the icon. There
> is plenty of unused space around the icon.

This depends on the settings. If you use, e. g., the Details View with a small zoom level, there is hardly any unused space. Therefore, moving the selection marker out of the icon might not always work as expected.
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2012-08-09 10:38:45 UTC 
Related: bug 299328
Comment 3 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:19:49 UTC 
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Comment 4 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 02:18:59 UTC 
Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.