Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.1KDE 1.2) Go to a directory with several folders or files. Let say that one : a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Then focus a first item (c) : a b*c*d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t And press Shift+KeyDown and then Shift+KeyRight : a b*c*d*e*f* g*h*i*j*k l m n o p q r s t Items c to j are selected. Normal and expected ! Now, unselect all and click c (as before) : a b*c*d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Press Shift and CLICK item j. What's up ? A RECTANGLE (c,d,i,j) is selected : a b*c*d*e f g h*i*j*k l m n o p q r s t 1/ It's not consistent with keyboard Shift selection. 2/ BUT it's also not expected at all !!! 3/ Because if we want to select contigus files it is because they are alphabetically sorted (or another sort) : so we want also to select items e, f, g and h. And because if we resize the window, select a rectangle from c will select other items : no logical reasonment in that. 4/ If we want a rectangle, we can click an empty space little more on top and more on left of item c and drag a rectangle until j. That's all. I hope I'm understanded with the "pictures" :-)
I'm wondering why this bug hasn't got any votes. Bump! That's a serious usability issue.
I agree but I'm not touching icon views with a 10-foot pole. :(
this is a duplicate of Bug 59228
This is fixed in 4.0.3 (for the record, it does still occur in 3.5.7)
Thank you for this report. I confirm the bug has been fixed and KDE SVN trunk (r806088) exhibits the correct behaviour. I close it as WORKSFORME.