Bug 392788

Summary:	Presence or absence of selection markers should be determined programmatically
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Nate Graham <nate>
Component:	view-engine: general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	usability
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Nate Graham 2018-04-06 02:24:17 UTC

With the default single-click setting, selection markers are practically mandatory, since without them there is no way to select files with the mouse.

But if you change the setting to double-click, they become useless annoyances: clicking anywhere on an icon selects it, so there's no need for a tiny hover button in the corner to provide this feature.

Plasma's Folder View shows and hides the selection markers automatically based on this setting; we should do the same in Dolphin.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-04-06 04:29:43 UTC

Submitted a patch: https://phabricator.kde.org/D11979

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-04-12 22:11:30 UTC

Nah, we're not going to do this. There are use cases where people like the selection markers even when they're using Double-Click.