Bug 324665

Summary: shift+click multi-select doesn't work properly across columns in open dialog
Product: [Applications] kfile Reporter: Mark K Cowan <mark>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.11.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: Video demonstrating what happens when I attempt to range-select

Description Mark K Cowan 2013-09-08 15:29:04 UTC
I click on a file at the bottom of a column in an open dialog.  I then shift+click on a file in the next column.  I would expect this to select all files inclusively between* the two that I clicked on.
*"between" in the sort order (in this case, by name), not by position on the screen as a click+drag select would do

Instead, a seemingly random selection of files are selected.  The selection is deterministic in that if I repeat the process, attempting to select the same range of files as before, then the same buggy selection is produced.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch an open dialog which permits multi-select (e.g. Kate->open)
2. click on a file in one column
3. shift+click on a file in another column
4. files outside the desired range are selected
Actual Results:  
Files outside the desired range are selected

Expected Results:  
Files inside the desired range, and only those files should be selected

Potential security issue if someone doesn't realise that they're attaching the wrong files to an email.
Comment 1 Mark K Cowan 2013-09-08 15:29:50 UTC
Created attachment 82220 [details]
Video demonstrating what happens when I attempt to range-select
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2013-09-08 17:52:32 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 182239 ***