Bug 470008

Summary: Elisa doesn't honor double click to open
Product: [Applications] Elisa Reporter: Greg Lepore <greg>
Component: generalAssignee: Matthieu Gallien <matthieu_gallien>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: minor CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 23.04.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
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Description Greg Lepore 2023-05-19 16:00:59 UTC
SUMMARY
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My KDE system is set to select on single click and open on double click, however Elisa opens on single click when adding music via the Files section.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Elisa
2. Change to Files view
3. Single click on a folder

OBSERVED RESULT
Folder is opened

EXPECTED RESULT
Folder is selected


Operating System: KDE neon 5.27
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.106.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9
Kernel Version: 5.19.0-41-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-05-19 20:27:09 UTC
This is true, and technically it's a "file view" that you would expect to respect that setting. So I can see where you're coming from.

On the other hand, the entire reason for double-click to exist in the first place is to make it easier to select items by clicking them once so you can then perform actions on them. But these folders have no actions which can be performed on them when selected, aside from the ones that appear on hover, so it wouldn't actually make sense to respect the setting. Therefore, we have to weigh the following:

- On one hand, it's inconsistent with other file views that to respect the setting.
- On the other hand, because this file view has no "selected" state, respecting the setting would have no benefit outside of increasing consistency and would introduce the drawbacks of slower interactions and inconsistency with other grid views within the app.

So in this case we made the judgment that the latter concern carried more weight.

Hope that helps to explain the situation.