Bug 429250

Summary: Consistent Messaging When Selecting Files
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Andres Betts <anditosan1000>
Component: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: kfm-devel, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Andres Betts 2020-11-17 15:53:08 UTC 
SUMMARY
In Dolphin, when a user selects 2 or more files, the status bar shows a message that says "2 Files Selected". When 1 files is selected, Dolphin shows a message that is the selected file's name only.

The messages should be more consistent. When 1 file is selected, show a message that says "1 file selected". This will bring the messaging to consistency with the rest of the messages that appear when doing file selections.

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Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-11-17 20:27:19 UTC 
I suspect that the label shows rudimentary information about the selected file as a sort of poor man's information panel. The Information panel is turned off by default, after all, and this label shows file type and size for the selected item in a very compact way.

So I suspect that this is intentional. If we take your suggestion, we may be improving consistency but we will be reducing functionality. Furthermore, it's not clear that improving consistency is really an improvement here. Showing different information for single selection vs multi-selection is quite common all over the place, because different sets of information are available in these diverging cases.

As such, I'm not sure it makes sense to do, sorry. :)