Bug 392788

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