Bug 508338

Summary:	New selection effect: The selection effect is very flashy on click
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	postix <postix>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	akselmo, dolphin-bugs-null, jamesavery1982+kdebugs, linx.system.adm
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	25.08.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description postix 2025-08-16 12:57:42 UTC

SUMMARY

When clicking on a file, the background color changes its brightness quickly from brighter to darker blue (or accent color), which doesn't feel pleasant to me but very noisy.

As I don't see any additional value or information in this kind of feedback to the click, I'd kindly ask to consider removing it. 

This kind of feedback is also inconsistent, with other selections, e.g. with the listview of SystemSettings or the InfoCenter.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.16.0-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

Comment 1 postix 2025-08-16 12:58:39 UTC

I use Double Click to open a file fwiw.

Comment 2 Patrick Silva 2025-08-19 03:35:08 UTC

*** Bug 508445 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Akseli Lahtinen 2025-08-28 13:41:42 UTC

This is a click feedback effect and it's expected to be there.

> This kind of feedback is also inconsistent, with other selections, e.g. with the listview of SystemSettings or the InfoCenter.

Correct, we need to go over all our selection items and make them work similarly. 

Sorry that I do not have the answer you'd like to hear.

Comment 4 postix 2025-08-28 13:48:10 UTC

So you would like to make them all flashy?
I'm not sure if this is the right direction, but yeah, we'll see what's the general feedback over time.

Comment 5 Akseli Lahtinen 2025-08-28 14:00:17 UTC

We could tie it into animation settings, because it technically is a feedback animation. 
So if user has animations off, it would turn off too.

Comment 6 postix 2025-08-28 14:10:18 UTC

(In reply to Akseli Lahtinen from comment #5)
> We could tie it into animation settings, because it technically is a
> feedback animation. 
> So if user has animations off, it would turn off too.

Generally, when animations are turned to instant or have an option with "Show click feedback" ? Of course I'd prefer the latter :D

I think it would be useful to gather more voices and discuss this with others devs and users. Maybe it's just me in the end, who doesn't like it and then we end up with option-creep for nothing. :)

Comment 7 Akseli Lahtinen 2025-08-28 14:49:27 UTC

> when animations are turned to instant

Yeah, that's what I meant.

And I do agree that having flashy things can be bothersome to some people. Maybe we need a system-wide "avoid flashy effects" accessibility setting.

I don't really have solutions at the moment, but those are my ideas for it. I wouldn't mind revisiting this in future when there's more people giving feedback.

It's of course also possible that the effect is just too intense, and we can tone it down a bit. :)