STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Eg Details View with lots of files 2. Hold down F5 OBSERVED RESULT The details view starts flickering with a high rate. This can be problematic for people with Please see https://invent.kde.org/teams/accessibility/collaboration/-/issues/30 EXPECTED RESULT Some less problematic and less annoying way of communicating that Dolphin keeps refreshing.
Can confirm the flashing. Not sure if there's enough of it to be truly seizure-inducing (typically this requires a large area of the screen), but it's definitely bad and we should fix it.
> Not sure if there's enough of it to be truly seizure-inducing (typically this requires a large area of the screen), In my case, where I've observed the bug, I had Dolphin running fullscreen on a 27" with hundreds of files covering almost the whole screen. Since I'm working remote (on a remote FS) I kept pressing F5 in the hope to finally see the updated files.
Fair enough; in a case like that I can see how the flashing would be very strong.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/1236
Git commit e865a1a33cd23fd8ec55315694152262731f727c by Méven Car, on behalf of Ritchie Frodomar. Committed on 02/04/2026 at 10:41. Pushed by meven into branch 'master'. Refresh shortcut: Ignore repeat events Disables auto-repeat on the action for refreshing Dolphin's file list, preventing flickering, when holding F5 pressed/long. M +1 -0 src/dolphinmainwindow.cpp https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/commit/e865a1a33cd23fd8ec55315694152262731f727c
Thanks so much for your work! <3
Git commit 0f6b47eb7307540de68357ca57e4aac95be32dfd by Méven Car. Committed on 02/04/2026 at 14:19. Pushed by meven into branch 'release/26.04'. Refresh shortcut: Ignore repeat events Disables auto-repeat on the action for refreshing Dolphin's file list, preventing flickering, when holding F5 pressed/long. (cherry picked from commit e865a1a33cd23fd8ec55315694152262731f727c) 187b4f2f Disable auto-repeat for Refresh action Co-authored-by: Ritchie Frodomar <ritchie@kde.org> --- from !1236 M +1 -0 src/dolphinmainwindow.cpp https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/commit/0f6b47eb7307540de68357ca57e4aac95be32dfd