STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Have a file named "Giant Ship Poster.jpg" in a folder you're in 2. Slowly type the name of the file OBSERVED RESULT Dolphin selects the file but also enters Selection Mode EXPECTED RESULT Dolphin just selects the file ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Seems to be based on the speed of typing; if I type the name really fast, it becomes selected without entering Selection Mode.
I only just started running into this with dolphin version 22.12.0 except it doesn't matter if you type fast. If you press the space bar at all. You will enter selection mode.
Also there is this bug about type ahead speed https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424416
As Dashon says, selection mode is now unexpectedly entered in Dolphin 22.12.0 whenever you press spacebar no matter how fast you type. Given Nate's original observation I'm wondering if the responsible code has changed since and originally tried to detect whether you were in typeahead mode (which has been tied to typing speed for as long as I have been aware of the feature I think) and doesn't now. This is more annoying when the matched entry before the space is different from the intended one which can easily happen, e.g. a folder may contain: - One Directory/ - One Directory More/ - One True Directory/ Typing "One " will enter selection mode and will have "One Directory" selected, when I intended to enter "One T..." to have "One True Directory" selected.
Not sure how soon this bug will be resolved, but if you are really annoyed by this you can unbind "Select Files and Folders" from "Space" as a workaround so it won't interfere with type-ahead anymore.
(In reply to Felix Ernst from comment #4) > Not sure how soon this bug will be resolved, but if you are really annoyed > by this you can unbind "Select Files and Folders" from "Space" as a > workaround so it won't interfere with type-ahead anymore. Thanks for the tip, since spacebar was the trigger for this. I hadn't even thought to check my keyboard shortcuts.
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 458281, 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
*** Bug 464932 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***