Bug 409117

Summary:	Multi-select on touchscreens not working property
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Störm Poorun <ict>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bugseforuns, elvis.angelaccio, ermonnezza, felixernst, justin.zobel
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	19.04.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Störm Poorun 2019-06-24 08:43:07 UTC

SUMMARY

Dolphin does not support touchscreens well.

This would be aided by providing ability for touchscreen users to select more than one file/folder at a time.

Currently, when a user taps a file/folder, it is selected, when the user taps another, it is selected, but the first one is deselected.

If the users clicks in the top left hand corner of the icon, sometimes a user can multi-select, but the icon has to be large enough and even then it is hit-and-miss. The multi-select zone in the top left corner of an icon may work well for touchpad/mouse, but is not suited to touchscreen.



[User expects (in line with common protocol in other apps):

1) 1 finger tap to select
2) 1 finger double tap icon to open
3) 1 finger swipe to multi select
4) 2 finger swipe to scroll
5) 2 fingers pinch to zoom
6) 1 finger long press to get context menu]

Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2020-11-05 06:29:34 UTC

This is certainly a UX issue, I'd really like to see this implemented.

Comment 2 Felix Ernst 2022-12-08 11:07:41 UTC

So in a way this bug report is now resolved with the introduction of the selection mode feature in Dolphin 22.12. It allows multi-selection by first entering selection mode through a long press (https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/commit/71ea4a88d890949500d05aa21839ad93ec6bdb1d) and then tapping the files one wants to select.

There are unfortunately multiple feature requests in this bug report which makes things confusing. I don't think we should implement all of the exact behaviours mentioned above. Single-tap to open a file or folder isn't inherently wrong.

I agree that we most definitely want 2 finger swipe for scroll.

The context menu is now integrated into the selection mode.

I'll mark this as resolved because, for one, the bug of the title of the bug report has been fixed and secondly because the situation has fundamentally changed with today's release. Feel free to re-report aspects of this bug report that still persist with the latest version.