Bug 69024

Summary: System "File Open" dialog does not accept mouse wheel events
Product: [Unmaintained] kfile Reporter: Helge Deller <deller>
Component: generalAssignee: kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: andresbajotierra, deller, gregor
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Helge Deller 2003-11-25 21:59:13 UTC 
Version:           unknown (using KDE 3.1.93 (CVS >= 20031111), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.21-99-athlon

KDE's "File Open" (KFileDialog) Dialog box does not accept mouse wheel 
events in the selection box.

How to reproduce:
a) start kedit->File->Open...    *OR*
a) start konqui->Open Location->click on the small "Open File Dialog button"

b) Press "F6" (or RMB->View->Short View)
c) [ in case you still see a vertical scroll bar resize the box ]
d) now scroll the mouse wheel -> since no vertical scroll bar is available, the dialog box will not scroll right/left, which it IMHO normally should.

This affects of course all programs and should IMHO be fixed before KDE 3.2
Comment 1 Jo Øiongen 2004-07-30 11:15:58 UTC 
Is this not a wishlist item?

Cheers Jo
Comment 2 Dario Andres 2009-07-22 19:02:59 UTC 
Are you referring to:

A tall and thin filedialog with:
- no vertical scrollbar
- horizontal scrollbar
?

I reproduced the case here and tested it:
- Wheel do not scroll horizontally
- Holding the alt key + wheel scroll horizontal

Optionally you can mouse wheel *over* the horizontal scrollbar, and it will scroll horizontally.

Also, I just checked this in a Qt-only testcase:
Creating a QWidget in QtDesigner: a QListWidget with an unique long item: scrolling works the same way (normal wheel do not work, alt+wheel scrolls horizontally properly)

Here using:

Qt: 4.5.2 (KDE-Qt git commit 46a247a2c9a8c0c4456a02f6a0922d859d88fe76
        Date:   Fri Jun 26 13:45:37 2009 +0200)
KDE: 4.3.61 (KDE 4.3.61 (KDE 4.4 >= 20090717))
kdelibs svn rev. 999250 / kdebase svn rev. 999250
on ArchLinux i686 - Kernel 2.6.30.1

If you are indeed referring to this, then you should submit a wish/feature request to QtSoftware. Thanks
Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2009-08-27 02:34:47 UTC 
Moving from "kio/kfile" component to "kfile" product, helps sorting out duplicates.
Comment 4 Gregor Tätzner 2011-10-01 13:45:35 UTC 
I can't reproduce it on 4.6.5. Horizontal scrolling with the mouse wheel in a kfile dialog is working, without holding the alt key.
Comment 5 Gregor Tätzner 2012-04-04 10:44:00 UTC 
It(In reply to comment #4)
> I can't reproduce it on 4.6.5. Horizontal scrolling with the mouse wheel in
> a kfile dialog is working, without holding the alt key.
same counts for kde 4.8.2 / qt 4.8.1