https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496023
Bug ID: 496023
Summary: Open/save dialog file listing has no touch scroll,
making it seemingly near impossible to navigate larger
folders
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Product: frameworks-kio
Version: 6.7.0
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Open/save dialogs
Assignee: kio-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: e...@horse64.org
CC: kdelibs-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 175686
--> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=175686&action=edit
Screenshot with handwritten annotation to show the affected area
SUMMARY
It seems like the open/save dialog file listing has no touch scroll, see
screenshot. Unless I'm missing something obvious, this is making it seemingly
near impossible to navigate larger folders since for those the scrollbar will
be too tiny to reliably hit with a finger. This means the dialog aren't
accessible anymore on touch devices, including convertible laptops or otherwise
touch scree laptops used by their users in a more casual way.
I'd also like to give a honorary mention that touch scroll where it does exist
in other KDE applications in larger text areas (e.g. konsole main terminal
area, kate main text editing area) often seems broken in that it brings up the
on-screen keyboard all the time from a scrolling action, often covering a large
part of the screen even if the user just toggled it away, even if the scrolled
area already had input focus and the user already just toggled the keyboard
away: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489672
Those two problems seem to be possibly the biggest showstopper for longer
regular touch use right now, at least from my experiments so far.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open save/file dialog
2. Try to scroll main listing in the center (see screenshot) with a finger
OBSERVED RESULT
Stuff gets dragged around or somehow selected. It should scroll instead.
EXPECTED RESULT
Touch scroll works in main file listing.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows:
macOS:
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: postmarketOS Edge based on Alpine 3.21.0_alpha20240923
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0 (some applications report 6.7.0, kinfo says
6.8.0)
Qt Version: 6.7.2
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