Bug 506199

Summary:	Alt/Ctrl/Shift+Click to unfold a folder and all child folders in the tree view
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Damglador <vse.stopchanskyi>
Component:	view-engine: general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kdedev, kfm-devel, meven
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	25.04.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Damglador 2025-06-26 06:48:10 UTC

SUMMARY
Someone said that's a thing in MacOS' Finder and I think it's really useful. Right now I would love to have it to unfold all my stew package folders, since in each there's only one/two subfolder.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.3-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (13.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-09-08 15:32:01 UTC

A way to fold / unfold folders (maybe per level like in code IDEs) would be useful

When I'm browsing a set of folders, each might have many subfolders, being able to fold all folders would be very very useful

Comment 2 Méven 2025-09-10 12:26:49 UTC

FYI, you can achieve this workflow.

If you select a folder then the next items holding shift, then hit arrow right key, it will deploy a level of sub-folders.
As long as you keep holding shift you can do this multiple times.
You can expand several selected folders at once this way.

I did that in https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/546

This was reported as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196772

We could have a single shortcut to expand