Bug 63591

Summary: NEAR IMPOSSIBLE to copy/move multiple files around in details view
Product: [Applications] konqueror Reporter: Casey Allen Shobe <cshobe>
Component: generalAssignee: Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 3.1.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Casey Allen Shobe 2003-09-01 20:41:04 UTC 
Version:           3.1.3 (using KDE 3.1.3)
Installed from:    compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.2
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20

Selecting files is a bitch.  I have to start drawing a box in one row at the top, but not in the column where the filename is, even if it's *far* to the right of the filename.  Instead, I have to find some place even farther to the right, and start there.  If I try starting my selection from the bottom right, then my selection extends slowly downward as I select more files going up (this happens inconsistantly...I can't reproduce it all the time).  WHY????  Argh.  I can't click in the blank area to the right of the filename, or it opens that file.  I can't hold my mouse over the file to select it, because it doesn't work (I don't know if it's supposed to, but having single-click open without some manner of selecting a file is broken, in my opinion)

Okay....got my files selected.  Now let me just click on the group and drag them over here.  Hey, WHAT THE HELL???  When I click part of a selection, the selection goes away and only the one file is selected.  AAAAARGH!!

Okay...I can work with this....very carefully I select a file by clicking something other than the file like it's size (ugh, this is just wrong), then scroll on down and shift-click the last file I want.  Now, very cleverly, I drag the files WITHOUT EVER RELEASING THE MOUSE BUTTON, and this seems to work, though it's about as easy and user-friendly as using a blender to peel a banana before eating it.  It's also very important that I shift-click the last file NAME COLUMN, which is the exact opposite of what I have to do to select files normally.


This behavior is horrible...does anyone actually use details view?  It would be most preferable, if it was usable.
Comment 1 Casey Allen Shobe 2003-09-01 20:49:35 UTC 
Also inconsistant...sometimes when I try to draw a box from the top down, the 
first couple files at the top are skipped and my selection starts a couple 
files down. 
 
I'm looking at a folder right now where this happens...if I start my selection 
at the top everything is good.  If I start it halfway down the screen, the 
first file is skipped.  If I start it near the bottom, two files are skipped.  
Farther even, and it's three.  If I continue selecting enough to make the 
contents scroll, the situation rights itself somewhere in the scrolling 
process SOMETIMES.
Comment 2 Casper Planken 2003-09-17 13:40:47 UTC 
>>>....got my files selected. Now let me just click on the group and drag them 
over here. Hey, WHAT THE HELL??? When I click part of a selection, the 
selection goes away and only the one file is selected. AAAAARGH!! 
 
Not sure if this behaviour was already present in KDE3.1, but I am sure this 
problem was not around in KDE 3.0 
 
It is very annoying and I guess this is an introduced bug because this used to 
work just fine.
Comment 3 Casper Planken 2003-09-17 14:17:13 UTC 
The Drag and Drop bug has already been fixed in KDE 3.1.4 
 
konqueror's listview: selected items don't get unselected anymore during DnD 
operation 
 
kdebase -> 
http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog3_1_3to3_1_4.php
Comment 4 John Firebaugh 2003-09-22 03:14:36 UTC 
... and the remainder is mostly a duplicate of 47584. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47584 ***