Remove current item highlighting in the Places Panel

In the Places Panel, there is always exactly one selected item, which is
equal to the current item. Since the selected item is highlighted by
drawing its background in a different color, it is not really necessary
to highlight additionally that it is the current item.

This is achieved by removing the calls to
KItemListWidget::setCurrent(true) from KItemListView. The "current"
information in the widget is only used for deciding if the "current item
highlighting", like an underline in Oxygen, should be drawn.

The motivation for this change is that I have seem some complaints about
the "current item" highlighting, which can be even more distracting with
non-Oxygen styles.

REVIEW: 119019

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/kitemviews/kitemlistview.cpp b/src/kitemviews/kitemlistview.cpp
index 281258898..756f9e39a 100644
--- a/src/kitemviews/kitemlistview.cpp
+++ b/src/kitemviews/kitemlistview.cpp
@@ -1332,14 +1332,18 @@ void KItemListView::slotCurrentChanged(int current, int previous)
 {
     Q_UNUSED(previous);
 
-    KItemListWidget* previousWidget = m_visibleItems.value(previous, 0);
-    if (previousWidget) {
-        previousWidget->setCurrent(false);
-    }
+    // In SingleSelection mode (e.g., in the Places Panel), the current item is
+    // always the selected item. It is not necessary to highlight the current item then.
+    if (m_controller->selectionBehavior() != KItemListController::SingleSelection) {
+        KItemListWidget* previousWidget = m_visibleItems.value(previous, 0);
+        if (previousWidget) {
+            previousWidget->setCurrent(false);
+        }
 
-    KItemListWidget* currentWidget = m_visibleItems.value(current, 0);
-    if (currentWidget) {
-        currentWidget->setCurrent(true);
+        KItemListWidget* currentWidget = m_visibleItems.value(current, 0);
+        if (currentWidget) {
+            currentWidget->setCurrent(true);
+        }
     }
     QAccessible::updateAccessibility(this, current+1, QAccessible::Focus);
 }
@@ -1978,7 +1982,12 @@ void KItemListView::updateWidgetProperties(KItemListWidget* widget, int index)
     widget->setStyleOption(m_styleOption);
 
     const KItemListSelectionManager* selectionManager = m_controller->selectionManager();
-    widget->setCurrent(index == selectionManager->currentItem());
+
+    // In SingleSelection mode (e.g., in the Places Panel), the current item is
+    // always the selected item. It is not necessary to highlight the current item then.
+    if (m_controller->selectionBehavior() != KItemListController::SingleSelection) {
+        widget->setCurrent(index == selectionManager->currentItem());
+    }
     widget->setSelected(selectionManager->isSelected(index));
     widget->setHovered(false);
     widget->setEnabledSelectionToggle(enabledSelectionToggles());