Bug 59231

Summary:	drag and drop multiple elements
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Damien Mirand <dmirand>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	zander
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description Damien Mirand 2003-06-01 22:23:03 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.2)
Installed from:    Mandrake RPMs

Beginning with KDE 3.1.2, it seems impossible to drag and drop a multiple selection of objects (files / folders) in konqueror.
Pressing the mouse's left button (to begin dragging) on one of these elements makes every other element to be deselected. It can still be done by pressing the shift key in this step, but it is not very convenient.

Outside Konqueror (eg on desktop icons), the same operation works fine.

Comment 1 Thomas Zander 2003-06-05 20:38:39 UTC

This is indeed very annoying and makes the said view quite useless for real file management. 
 
To specify the faulty behavior; 
 
when a selection of multiple files was made dragging the selection to another view does 2 
things incorrectly. 
1: when clicking on an item to initiate a drag the single click action is performed. This means 
that the item I click to start a drag is the only one I am dragging. 
2: the feature to 'select' a directory I hold my selection above is broken when I leave that 
directories-drop-area again. It deselects the dir even if it is in the selection. 
 
I suggest: 
1) when clicking on a selected item assume a drag will occur and don't alter the selection on 
mouse down. 
When no drag occurs and the mouse is released just do a single click on the item. 
 
2) since a selection can't be moved/copied into itself or any directory part of the selection the 
altering of the selection of the directory under the mouse is usesless when that directory is part 
of the selection. 
Easy solution seems to be that this directory should be excluded from the select-hovering-dir 
feature. 
Nicer solution would be to ghost the items in the selection (but keep them selected) as soon as 
a drag starts and show a 'forbidden'  pointer when hovering over them. These are two extra 
features to complement the fix of the previous paragraph and make it extremely obvious to the 
user.

Comment 2 redmac5 2003-06-07 09:53:33 UTC

I am experiencing this problem as well on a SuSE 8.0 distribution with a custom 2.4.20 kernel 
and precompiled KDE 3.1.2 from one of the kde.org mirrors.

Comment 3 Damon Davison 2003-06-22 17:17:51 UTC

Same problem here with Redhat 9, KDE 3.1.2-0.fdr.3.rh90 RPM with RH vanilla kernel.

Comment 4 Andrej Keiper 2003-06-27 18:14:33 UTC

I still see this behavior in KDE 3.1.2 under SuSE 8.2. It's very annoying.

Comment 5 Maksim Orlovich 2003-06-27 18:18:18 UTC

Qt3.1.2 bug (Qt 3.2.0 beta b0rken too) 
 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56220 ***