https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=419435
--- Comment #3 from Jonathan Chun <unmonito...@jonathanchun.com> --- (In reply to Jonathan Chun from comment #2) > (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > > Our own open/save dialog does this too, so it's a bit odd that Dolphin > > doesn't. > > > > One concern is that this could make multi-selection using a box more > > difficult. Indeed, the file dialog doesn't even implement this at all. > > Nonetheless, the other file managers you mentioned seem to have solved this > > problem in a fairly elegant way: > > - click-and-drag upwards in an empty area = drag a selection box > > - click-and-drag sideways in an empty area = drag-and-drop > > - click-and-drag in any direction on an item's icon or label = drag-and-drop > > > > I think it would make sense if Dolphin implemented this too (and then the > > file dialog, for that matter) > > To add on to that, in most file browsers I've used, shift+click will select > from your current row and invert-select up to the row you shift+clicked on, > which eliminates the need for click+dragging altogether. I'm not saying it > shouldn't be implemented -- just providing an alternative answer to the > "selecting multiple files might be hard" problem. In fact, I actually just tested it in Dolphin and Dolphin does already implement this behavior which is nice. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
