SUMMARY When Dolphin opens and shows a selected file, e.g. when clicking on "open containing folder" in Firefox after downloading a file, the intended file is correctly selected and acts normally, i.e. it opens if you press "enter" on the keyboard. However, if you press "shift" to select all files between that one and a second, the selection does not work. You have to manually select the already-selected file, and then select the second one. This is reproducible on all my machines, running either Neon or Arch. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Download a file through Firefox 2. Open the containing folder 3. While pressing "shift", select another file so that all the files in between those two should be selected. OBSERVED RESULT The file is selected as expected, however the "shift selection" does not work. EXPECTED RESULT The "shift selection" works. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Neon, Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.13.0 Qt Version: 6.8.2, 6.9.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Can confirm dolphin 25.07.70 Operating System: Fedora Linux 42 KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0 Qt Version: 6.9.0 Kernel Version: 6.14.2-300.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/964
Git commit b64bf8ca69c473de973eddef3d137fea80acb968 by Akseli Lahtinen. Committed on 26/04/2025 at 18:22. Pushed by akselmo into branch 'master'. DolphinView: Don't end anchored selection in updateSelectionState Do not end anchored selection when selection state is updated, such as when Dolphin is started with --select "thing.txt" flag. If we end here, and user wants to press shift to select from current item to X items, this would cause the anchored selection to start from the clicked item, not from the first selected item. M +0 -1 src/views/dolphinview.cpp https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/commit/b64bf8ca69c473de973eddef3d137fea80acb968