Let's say I want to open a file named "image". But current folder also has a subfolder with the same name. If I type "ima", the folder will be selected because it comes first. Because of that, for me to select the file using keyboard I need to press "i" multiple times, which may be unfeasible depending of the number of items in the folder.

I recently moved from Windows where I can bypass this by selecting any item after the folder I want to skip. Two ways (default sorting order, i.e. by name and folders first):

- I type "ima", so "image" folder is selected. Then I press down arrow key to select next item, then I type "ima" again and now the file "image" is selected, because selection by typing in Windows Explorer starts from current selected item.

- I manually click an item below "image" folder to skip it, so I type "ima" and the file "image" is selected as desired.

The issue is: Dolphin doesn't support starting from current selected item, so the two ways above doesn't work. It always selects from the top, no matter which item is currently selected.

Currently, the best workaround is to use Filter (Ctrl+I), but it's not as comfortable, as I need to press a shortcut, then Enter to return focus to list, and after it's done I need to press Ctrl+I again plus Esc to reset filter.

Dolphin 21.12.3.