Version: (using KDE 4.1.3) selection toggle: remember selection in the previous folder When user relies on selection toggle it is easy to miss, click on folder, enter it, you get back -- no selection. If would be useful it user could get back and see that dolphin remembers selection for this previous folder (or even better for every folder visited).
I'm not sure about this one: Shouldn't we fix the root cause instead (e. g. increasing the size of the selection marker)? Because if we remember the selection of the previous folder, I'm not sure what people expect that "Paste" should do in the sub folder...
By remember I mean remember internally. Something like cache. And it is also natural. Open two dolphin windows, make selection in one, activate (focus) the other one -- do you expect then now if you copy you copy from another (inactive) window? This mode is only when you "lost" your selection and objects, i.e. it should not apply to multicolumn mode. There "undo selection" would be a solution. And no, there is no technical root of the problem -- there is a human, and human can always miss -- the mouse is not that responsive, hand slipped, user is tired, etc etc etc.
@Peter: I do agree that the selection target needs to be bigger, but that is not the solution to this issue. Whousld I file a separate bug for that? I asked four users to select multiple files with the plus signs. I then had them enter a directory and asked them what would be the case when they return to the parent (original) directory. Three of them said that the files would remain selected. While this was not a large group, it shows what casual users expect. Should I try again with a larger group?
@Dotan: Please don't submit a new bug report, this report is OK. From a development point of view implementing this is tricky (Qt automatically deselects all items when clicking on a folder), but I agree now that from a users point of view this should be fixed. Thanks for doing a test with a small user group!
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
is it possible to have this wish implemented with the new dolphin engine?
Yep, parent folders are selected when going back now.