Bug 368004

Summary:	regression: when clicking an item in folder view (in panel) does not activate it
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Martin Koller <martin>
Component:	Desktop icons & Folder View widget	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.7.3
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Martin Koller 2016-08-30 10:55:05 UTC

In KDE4 times when I use a folder view applet in the panel, it behaves like a popup menu:
clicking the folder view icon pops up the list of files in the defined folder, doing a SINGLE click on one of the files opens the application for it (Important: I have definded to use DOUBLE-CLICK to open files from konqueror etc. in kcm-mouse)

That was very conveniant and a quick way to open my files.

In plasma5, this does no longer work that way.
I need to DOUBLE-CLICK the item in the popup to open the application.

I checked and it follows the global mouse-click selection.
More convenient would be to act as it was in KDE4 times

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Eike Hein 2016-08-30 18:23:17 UTC

This is intentional, it's a file manager view. The setting in System Settings also refers to "opening files and folders", so not following it would be really weird.

Comment 2 Martin Koller 2016-08-30 20:56:10 UTC

weird are the continuous changes in behavior between KDE4 and 5 and no way to configure the old one.