STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Press spacebar to enter Selection Mode 2. Select one or more files 3. Use the Tab key to focus a button on the contextual toolbar 4. Press the spacebar to trigger the button OBSERVED RESULT Selection Mode exits. EXPECTED RESULT The button is triggered. OTHER Would you like me to create a new component for "Selection Mode" in the Dolphin product, or should we keep tracking them in the general view engine component? Also Felix, would you like me to cc you by default on all new Dolphin bug reports, given that you're the new maintainer?
Can confirm. >Would you like me to create a new component for "Selection Mode" in the Dolphin product, or should we keep tracking them in the general view engine component? I guess that makes sense. Please add it if you think that's a good idea. >Also Felix, would you like me to cc you by default on all new Dolphin bug reports, given that you're the new maintainer? I think it would potentially be quite bad for my ability to relax in my free time if I keep reading all the issues people have with Dolphin every day without being able to deal with all of them. It would ultimately make me way less productive I think. So while I see where you are coming from with this, I wouldn't want to be cc'd by default, no.
Got it!
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/486
Git commit aac61acf41fb3ccd6f9a807984336d9be07917a4 by Felix Ernst, on behalf of Felix Ernst. Committed on 12/01/2023 at 11:26. Pushed by felixernst into branch 'release/22.12'. Make space shortcut for selection mode view-local instead of global Before this commit, the "Space" keyboard shortcut was bound to triggering selection mode by default. After this commit, pressing "Space" will only trigger selection mode when the file view area has keyboard focus. Pros: + Other buttons in the UI can be triggered with Space once again just like it is expected from an accessibility point of view. + "Type-ahead" searching works once more when typing the space char for file names containing such a space char. Cons: - "Space" can no longer be used to add the currently underlined item to the selection. Instead "Ctrl+Space" needs to be used. (However, this is the current status anyway unless a user has manually unbound "Space" as a shortcut from Selection Mode.) - The Selection Mode action will no longer show "Space" as its shortcut in menus. Overall, I see solutions to all of these problems, but they seem over-engineered for the issues they are trying to solve, so I believe this somewhat small commit is the best solution for now. Related: bug 458282, bug 463048 FIXED-IN: 23.04 (cherry picked from commit 44c82a16b3e2fc2d40601fd70f8253dce40dda86) M +0 -1 src/dolphinmainwindow.cpp M +4 -7 src/kitemviews/kitemlistcontroller.cpp M +5 -0 src/kitemviews/private/kitemlistkeyboardsearchmanager.cpp M +10 -1 src/kitemviews/private/kitemlistkeyboardsearchmanager.h https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/commit/aac61acf41fb3ccd6f9a807984336d9be07917a4