Bug 292459 - Can't deselect individual files in Dolphin 2.0
Summary: Can't deselect individual files in Dolphin 2.0
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 292250
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: view-engine: general (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Penz
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Reported: 2012-01-26 13:01 UTC by Janek Bevendorff
Modified: 2012-01-27 11:36 UTC (History)
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Description Janek Bevendorff 2012-01-26 13:01:29 UTC
Version:           2.0 (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

I just upgraded to KDE 4.8.0 (stable, but here on Bugzilla it's not in the list yet, so I selected "Recent Git") with Dolphin 2.0.
Dolphin has become  much faster, but it also has got some bugs. One of these is that I can't deselect individual files anymore.

When selecting several files or folders (doesn't matter whether it's compact, details or icons mode), I always could Ctrl-click on any selected file to deselect it but keep all the other files selected.
Now when I do that, the file becomes unselected for some milliseconds and then all the previously selected files are unselected and the file I just clicked becomes selected instead.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select a bunch of files or folders (Ctrl+A, marquee-select or Click/hold Shift/click again - doesn't matter)
2. Hold Ctrl
3. Click on any selected file

Actual Results:  
The selection flashes and then all previously selected files are unselected, the file you Ctrl-clicked becomes selected instead.

Selecting files, holding Ctrl and then dragging a marquee over some files instead of clicking them doesn't work at all.

Expected Results:  
The selection should stay as is, but the Ctrl-clicked file should be unselected.
Holding Ctrl and then drawing a marquee should do the same, but instead nothing happens at all.
Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2012-01-26 13:23:25 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 292250 ***
Comment 2 Janek Bevendorff 2012-01-26 13:48:58 UTC
Yay, I spent 15 minutes searching for duplicates. Seems as if the Bugzilla search engine is really bad. Maybe I should use Google instead. :-(
Comment 3 Frank Reininghaus 2012-01-27 04:07:15 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Selecting files, holding Ctrl and then dragging a marquee over some files
> instead of clicking them doesn't work at all.

Does "dragging a marquee" mean rubberband selection, i.e., that you press the mouse button somewhere in the empty area of the view, draw a rectangle around some items and then release the button? This works without problems here, no matter if I press Ctrl or not. But it should even work without the fix for bug 292250 (that regression only affected mouse clicks on items, not rubberband selections).
Comment 4 Janek Bevendorff 2012-01-27 10:38:20 UTC
Yes, that was meant. Rubberband selection, marquee, whatever you call it. I used the Photoshop term for it, which is marquee.
Strangely enough I can't reproduce this myself at the moment, but yesterday it was definitely there. Drawing a rubberband selection only worked for selecting files, not for deselecting them (it just didn't have any effect).

But KDE 4.8.0 has some of these bugs, which occur arbitrarily, then go away and then appear again some time. For instance, oddly sized buttons on Plasma widgets, weird blue bars in the Lancelot search field, file and folder icons appearing and disappearing randomly in Dolphins file view etc. Very buggy. KDE 4.7 was much more stable.
Comment 5 Frank Reininghaus 2012-01-27 11:22:11 UTC
Thanks for the quick reply!

(In reply to comment #4)
> Yes, that was meant. Rubberband selection, marquee, whatever you call it. I
> used the Photoshop term for it, which is marquee.
> Strangely enough I can't reproduce this myself at the moment, but yesterday it
> was definitely there. Drawing a rubberband selection only worked for selecting
> files, not for deselecting them (it just didn't have any effect).

If you find a way to reproduce that behaviour, please let us know. I would be very much interested in tracking down the root cause of that issue.

> For instance, oddly sized buttons on Plasma
> widgets, weird blue bars in the Lancelot search field

If these issues are reproduceable, please report them to Plasma.

> file and folder icons
> appearing and disappearing randomly in Dolphins file view etc.

Again, if you find a way to reproduce that, please tell us. I know that finding the exact steps which are required to reproduce this kind of issue can be very hard, but it's one of the most helpful things anyone can do for us. Once we know how to trigger a bug, fixing it is usually not a big problem any more.

Thanks for your help!
Comment 6 Janek Bevendorff 2012-01-27 11:36:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> > For instance, oddly sized buttons on Plasma
> > widgets, weird blue bars in the Lancelot search field
> 
> If these issues are reproduceable, please report them to Plasma.

I guess I'll do that. For normal plasma widgets I can't really find out the reason. Sometimes the buttons are too big and sometimes very tiny, in rare cases exactly as they should be. However, for the networkmanagement plasmoid I can reproduce it reliably because there it is a permanent thing.
Now I just need to find any bugs like that which have already been reported. Not an easy task on a huge bug tracking system like this. :-\