| Summary: | Clicking on empty space in konq's detailed list view should not open any files | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] konqueror | Reporter: | joup |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | cshobe, maksim |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
joup
2002-09-07 21:18:52 UTC
This is of course a matter of opinion. For the following reasons, I believe the
current behavior is more correct:
1) Selection is shown on the whole column.
2) It would be more difficult for the user to judge when a click would open and
when it would select if it depended on the variable width of the name.
3) If you have it turned on, there is a nice cursor feedback as to what action
will be taken.
4) Larger targets are easier to hit. (Fitts law)
I welcome additional feedback from the kde-usability team.
*** Bug 63591 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I agree with the poster of this bug. I *never* clicked outside the filename or icon when I used konqueror in detailed list mode. There is no feedback (besides the cursor, which is insuficient) that told me I could click anywhere to select the filename to the left. In fact, I only discovered that it worked like that when I tried selecting a few files, and ended up dragging the one to the left where I clicked. - Completely unpredictable (I assumed that in *any* filemanager, a file is a file, and an empty space is not) - and completely un-userfriendly (there is no way (at least *obvious and immediate*) to select files using a mouse in this view). I think this beavious goes against all gui-theories out there. This was fixed recently. I don't know if it's fixed for KDE 3.3 already, but I think so. If not, it'll be in KDE 3.4. Clicking on the filename directly will execute it, clicking everywhere else will select it. Cheers, Michael On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:30 pm, Michael Brade wrote: > This was fixed recently. I don't know if it's fixed for KDE 3.3 already, > but I think so. Yes, it is. > Clicking on the filename directly will execute it, clicking everywhere else > will select it. The former is IMHO a massive improvement but the latter is still confusing - esp. since Konqueror still incorrectly highlights the entire column. I was double clicking in frustration (expecting the old broken behaviour) wondering why Konqueror wouldn't open my file. this isnt fixed and im using branch_3.5 revision 528451, so how was this marked as fixed? |