Version: 1.1.80 (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources With Konqueror 3.5 it was possible to select individual files with the cursor keys (move the cursor) and space (select file under cursor). In Konqueror 4.1.82 / Dolphin 1.1.80 there seems to be no way to select individual files with the keyboard.
Here using: Qt: 4.4.3 KDE: 4.1.85 (KDE 4.1.85 (KDE 4.2 Beta2)) kdelibs svn rev. 898705 / kdebase svn rev. 898705 on ArchLinux x86_64 - 2.6.27.8 In Dolphin you can select multiple individual files holding the CTRL key, moving the cursor with the cursor keys and select a file pressing the SPACE key (remember that you need to hold the CTRL key all the time until you finish)
The apparent lack of selection via keyboard was a major showstopper for me (I can now consider upgrading permanently, yay! :) ) and I'm glad to see that there is indeed a way to do this. But I'm not really convinced that doing it this is better, because it's too damn easy to lose the selection if you move the cursor by accident. (Not mentioning that it's not obvious, unfamiliar and hard to discover.) I was also hoping for a selection with the Insert key, which selects an item and moves the cursor down.
> Not mentioning that it's not obvious, unfamiliar and hard to discover. ...And I can't do it with just one hand; the new mode it annoyingly two-handed. Can you do something about it, pretty please? :)
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
(In reply to comment #3) > ...And I can't do it with just one hand; the new mode it annoyingly > two-handed. How can you not do this one-handed? There's a Ctrl right next to your arrow keys.
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I also am looking for a less fragile keyboard-driven selection, as can be done in Double Commander. The key here is that we need a new additional type of selection, "mark." I'll call the current type of selection, whose behavior need not change, "soft-select." - KEY1 (e.g. INS or SPACE, needs entry in kb shortcuts) toggles mark of currently soft-selected item - Toggle option: KEY1 also moves soft-select to next single item - Toggle option: shift+cursor-key toggles mark of currently soft-selected item and soft-selects "next" (directional) single item - Need kb shortcut and menu item to unmark all (in current pane) Then there are questions about which group of files to perform a requested action on when there are both soft-selected items and marked items. I would say cursor dragging operations, as now, ought to continue operating only on soft-selected items. I know when I'm moving and copying between panes with keyboard shortcuts, if I've got marked items, that's what I'm trying to operate on. I can't tell right now if supporting both select styles simultaneously like this is wise, or rather it should be a one-or-the-other choice. I'd love to hear from any devs that have been thinking about this kind of feature!
Oh it might be worth mentioning this is conceptually related to a "stash" folder, as I *think* a bunch of marked items are essentially a bunch of stashed items. Never actually used a stash folder though . . .