User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/12.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.151 Chrome/18.0.1025.151 Safari/535.19 Build Identifier: [I am sure there was a bug report on this some long time ago, but I couldn’t find it] When using KDE with the option to open files by single click, there is an option that icons get automatically selected after a certain amount of time hovering. This option is not applied to dolphin. This is still true for the new view engine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to Mouse settings, choose “Single click to open files and folders” 2. Enable “Automatically select icons” and choose some time 3. Open dolphin and hover a file Actual Results: Nothing happens (okay, the tooltip appears, the selection plus appears etc :P) Expected Results: The file gets selected. It seems that option is broken in its entirety. Neither kfind, nor konqueror, nor systemsettings care about it.
Thanks for the report, but at least from a Dolphin point of view I don't intend to support this option: It has not been implemented since 4 years already and if I remember correctly it has been requested only by a handful people (I also cannot find the original report ;-)) In my personal opinion this option should completely be removed from the settings: - As you say it seems the applications ignore this setting anyhow - Judging from the feedback it seems the request for this option is very rare - From a development-point-of-view this is not just a simple option to implement: It requires quite complex logic and I doubt it is worth the maintenance pain ;-) I currently don't have the time to drive the request to remove this setting, probably you can bring this up on a forum so that probably another developer provides a patch (-> deprecating the option)?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 204886 ***