Bug 496023 - Open/save dialog file listing has no touch scroll, making it seemingly near impossible to navigate larger folders
Summary: Open/save dialog file listing has no touch scroll, making it seemingly near i...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 406513
Alias: None
Product: frameworks-kio
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: Open/save dialogs (show other bugs)
Version: 6.7.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KIO Bugs
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Reported: 2024-11-09 20:46 UTC by Ellie
Modified: 2025-03-14 17:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Screenshot with handwritten annotation to show the affected area (254.35 KB, image/png)
2024-11-09 20:46 UTC, Ellie
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Description Ellie 2024-11-09 20:46:11 UTC
Created attachment 175686 [details]
Screenshot with handwritten annotation to show the affected area

SUMMARY

It seems like the open/save dialog file listing has no touch scroll, see screenshot. Unless I'm missing something obvious, this is making it seemingly near impossible to navigate larger folders since for those the scrollbar will be too tiny to reliably hit with a finger. This means the dialog aren't accessible anymore on touch devices, including convertible laptops or otherwise touch scree laptops used by their users in a more casual way.

I'd also like to give a honorary mention that touch scroll where it does exist in other KDE applications in larger text areas (e.g. konsole main terminal area, kate main text editing area) often seems broken in that it brings up the on-screen keyboard all the time from a scrolling action, often covering a large part of the screen even if the user just toggled it away, even if the scrolled area already had input focus and the user already just toggled the keyboard away: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489672

Those two problems seem to be possibly the biggest showstopper for longer regular touch use right now, at least from my experiments so far.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Open save/file dialog
2. Try to scroll main listing in the center (see screenshot) with a finger

OBSERVED RESULT

Stuff gets dragged around or somehow selected. It should scroll instead.

EXPECTED RESULT

Touch scroll works in main file listing.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Windows: 
macOS: 
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: postmarketOS Edge based on Alpine 3.21.0_alpha20240923
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0 (some applications report 6.7.0, kinfo says 6.8.0)
Qt Version: 6.7.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-03-14 17:09:38 UTC
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 406513 ***