On Thursday 07 October 2010 18:28:30 David C. Rankin wrote:
In KDE4 4.5.2 (and versions prior) konqueror failes to properly place focus on the file or directory in detail or tree view when you click in the area after the file name in the "Name" column. In fact, if the user turns off selection markers, there is no way to place focus on a file or directory without right-clicking on the actual file or directory name and then canceling the resulting context menu.
What's the use case for focusing but not selecting or focusing but not performing some action from the context menu on the file? If you disable the tool meant to be used for selecting files, i.e. placing the focus on a file but not opening it, it seems obvious that you cannot use that feature.
Is there some technical limitation in kde4 that makes implementing what seems like such a simple and logical feature we had in kde3 impossible?
AFAIK it's due to Qt4 handling things differently than Qt3 and thus KDE4 would have to work around this. Instead the devs chose the new selection tool which is a lot easier to understand for new users which do not know about holding CTRL in order to select multiple files. For most actions that start with selecting a file/focusing on a file one can also use the right mouse button and pick an item from the menu. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org