Bug 508329 - New selection effect: Color of filename changes from black to white to black on selection and other columns to black on second click
Summary: New selection effect: Color of filename changes from black to white to black ...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 25.08.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
URL:
Keywords: regression
: 508445 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2025-08-16 11:00 UTC by postix
Modified: 2025-08-28 13:50 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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2025-08-16 11:00 UTC, postix
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Description postix 2025-08-16 11:00:30 UTC
Created attachment 184134 [details]
Screen recording

SUMMARY

The new selection effect is really great, thanks for that!
However, there's an annoying visual effect, when selecting files:

a) On click, the color of the filename changes from black to white and black to black on selection, which produces a kind of flashy experience.

b) The other columns in the details view change from gray to white and after a 2nd click become and stay black.

Please see the screen recording.

EXPECTED RESULT
The colors are always all black for Breeze for readability and less visual noise.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.10-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

ADDITIONAL INFO
I've cleared Dolphin's and Plasma's Cache before.
I use double click for opening files.
Comment 1 Rodrigo Pedra Brum 2025-08-18 11:06:40 UTC
Same on X11, was looking to see if someone had already reported it.

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250816
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.16.1-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Comment 2 postix 2025-08-19 10:10:57 UTC
*** Bug 508445 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Akseli Lahtinen 2025-08-28 13:38:40 UTC
Can confirm, but this is sort of expected since it's trying to preserve the readibility of the text with accent colors. 
I do however agree that its a bit weird and flashy, especially for an effect that is shown only for split second usually (except if you hold mouse down).

Maybe it should change font color only when mouse is held down long enough for a drag operation, but for short clicks it could stay the same?

Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.10-200.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
Comment 4 postix 2025-08-28 13:50:48 UTC
> This is sort of expected since it's trying to preserve the readibility of the text with accent colors. 

In the screen recording above, I find the readability with the black text way better than the one with a white color.

Also, this doesn't explain why only some labels change color and not all after the first click.