SUMMARY home key does not work right away in Dolphin STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. open Dolphin 2. press the home-key 3. OBSERVED RESULT nothing happens EXPECTED RESULT the first file or document should be marked SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION after to open Dolphin (or a new directory) the home-key does not work right away; the space-key need to be pressed, so that the first file/document is marked; but then, if another file/document is marked, then the home-key works, so that the first file/document is marked; that's a contradiction; the home-key should work at any time I think the problem is because the first file/document is already in focus, what means that the home-key does not work right away; better would be that there would be no focus when the content of a directory appears; in this case the home-key would work right away; instead of having 2 keys that do not work at any time, namely the home-key and the space-key, what is confusing, it would be much better to have only 1 key that works at any time; so the solution would be: no focus when the content of a directory appears Dolphin works in that kind of problem exactly like Windows Explorer in Windows XP; I think that Dolphin copied that behaviour; Dolphin should go a modern way, a more proper way by using only 1 key (the home-key) that works at any time
one more advantage when the first file/document would be not in focus: by pressing the right-arrow-key 1x, the first file/document would be marked, what makes sense; at the moment it is like this, when a new directory opens: by pressing the right-arrow-key 1x, the second file/document is marked
Can confirm.
The current behavior of the Home key (which is its default behavior in Qt) is consistent with that of arrow keys as well as PgUp and PgDn. For example, when the top left index is already the CURRENT item but not selected, up/left arrow, PgUp and Home shouldn't and don't select anything because there's nothing beyond it. Selecting the tope left CURRENT item with Home would be inconsistent with the behavior of other navigation keys. Space can be used to select the current item (and Ctrl+Space to deselect it).
(In reply to Tsu Jan from comment #3) > Selecting the tope left CURRENT item with Home would be inconsistent with > the behavior of other navigation keys. That is correct and that is why I mentioned in the description that: "better would be that there would be no focus when the content of a directory appears". So, the top left file would be not CURRENT item. As in my description above, in my opinion, the most important feature has to be: "the home-key should work at any time", instead of having 2 keys (home and space) that do not work at any time for the top left file.
example where the home-key works at any time: in Lubuntu 18.04 with the desktop-environment LXDE, in the file-manager PCManFM, the home-key works at any time