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Currently when dragging and dropping items in Details view,
even if the "Open files and folders" setting is set
"By clicking anywhere on the row", drag and drop
still behaves differently.
Instead, make the drag and drop follow the setting:
If clicking anywhere on the row causes actions, so
should dropping anywhere on the row.
BUG: 515439
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The mouse events need to modify the keyboard anchor assignments as well,
because selecting an item with a mouse and then navigating with keyboard
wouldn't follow the same selection.
BUG: 508609
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This reverts commit 122fee5625f0285ec4ebda79162c72390989eb2a.
This behavior change was well-intentioned, but has significant usability
and speed drawbacks that have not been addressed:
- Keyboard-driven folder manipulation became slower
- Unexpected behavioral differences when opening files with the pointer
compared to when opening them with the keyboard introduced
inconsistency and cognitive load
- Unexpected opening of selection mode during fast operation introduced
the potential for confusion and additional errors
- Dolphin's behavior became inconsistent with that of other file
managers users may be accustomed to
The bug tracker, discuss.kde.org, and Reddit are full of complaints
about this change. It's been a year now; I think it's clear that many
Dolphin users have not gotten used to and accepted it. I have to count
myself as one of them, I'm afraid. I've tried to get used to it for a
year, but I just have not been able to.
I don't believe the benefits of this change outweigh the drawbacks, so
let's revert it.
24d859cf19e90fa22ed687b36a68231625c1bd80 was explicitly mentioned as a
thing that should also be reverted in this case, but it's already been
done.
BUG: 494125
BUG: 511966
CCBUG: 424723
CCBUG: 492404
FIXED-IN: 25.12.0
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The original keyboard search implementation had a limitation when dealing with files containing repeated characters like 44.txt. When typing 44, it would trigger rapid navigation to the next item starting with 4 instead of matching the full string 44.
This patch introduces a smarter search strategy:
1. First attempt full string matching for exact file names
2. If full match fails and user is typing repeating characters, fall back to rapid navigation using either:
- Last successful search string (for extended searches like 444 -> 4444)
- First character only (original rapid navigation behavior)
The changes include:
- Modified changeCurrentItem signal to include a found parameter for search result feedback
- Added m_lastSuccessfulSearch to track successful searches for better fallback behavior
- Used Qt::DirectConnection to ensure synchronous execution for immediate result feedback
This provides better user experience when searching for files with repeated characters while maintaining the rapid navigation feature for quick browsing.
BUG: 501851
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This adds a new selection effect that is similar to what we have in QtQuick file item views.
There are also changes to some usability: Instead of only the icon and text being the clickable area in icon and details mode, the whole selection is now the clickable area.
Otherwise the usability should stay the same, it's mostly a visual change.
See also: https://invent.kde.org/teams/vdg/issues/-/issues/94
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In future Qt versions, Qt Timers do not allow negative intervals.
Instead, they will be changed to 1.
Related Qt commit:
https://github.com/qt/qtbase/commit/f1f610bc67bfd5c2ef31270a6945e7bae93b5e4a
Instead of relying on the interval, use a boolean variable
to check if the autoactivation is enabled or not.
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Search from the next position for new search and special repeated key search.
Otherwise search from the current position, which is current selected item if
something is selected or in selection mode, and 0 (the beginning) otherwise.
Test plan:
- create directory with files ab1, ab2, and ab3
- click ab2, and press escape to deselect
- type ab; verify that ab1 is selected
- wait a while, type ab again, verify that ab2 is selected
- wait a while, type ab again, verify that ab3 is selected
- click ab1, type ab, verify that ab2 is selected
BUG: 422951
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This commit implements mirroring of the details view mode for right-to-
left languages. This is the last of the Dolphin view modes which did
not adapt to right-to-left languages correctly.
Implementation-wise this is mostly about adapting the math so all the
information is placed correctly no matter the view mode or layout
direction. While most of the view actually changes the painting code
for right-to-left languages, for the column header I decided to keep
the logic left-to-right and instead reverse the order of the role
columns.
To implement this mirroring I needed to rework quite a bit of logic, so
I used the opportunity to fix some bugs/behaviur quirks:
- Left and right padding is now saved and restored separately instead
of only saving the left padding
- Changing the right padding no longer disables "automatic column
resizing".
- The grip handles for column resizing can now be grabbed when near the
grip handle instead of only allowing grabbing when slightly to the
left of the grip.
- Role column headers now only show a hover highlight effect when the
mouse cursor is actually above that role and not above the grip
handle or the padding.
- There is now a soft-boarder when shrinking the right padding so
shrinking the padding "below zero width" will no longer immediately
clear automatic resize behaviour. So now it is possible to simply
remove the right padding by resizing it to zero width.
BUG: 449211
BUG: 495942
# Acknowledgement
This work is part of a my project funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund,
a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European
Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG
Communications Networks, Content and Technology.
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Prior to this commit keyboard controls and behaviour of Dolphin's main
view were identical no matter if selection mode was enabled or not.
While selection mode makes it impossible to accidentally clear the
selection by singular mouse clicks, any press of an arrow key on the
keyboard would still clear the full selection which goes against
selection mode's objective.
Furthermore, keyboard-only users had no reason to ever enable selection
mode because it made no difference to them.
This commit changes this by offering a changed control scheme for key
presses while in selection mode. Arrow key presses without modifier now
only move focus between items but do no longer clear or change the
selection. Similarly, Page Up/Down, Home, and End key presses only move
keyboard focus. Enter, Return, and Space key presses now only toggle
the selection for the current item.
The above controls are however mostly unchanged when combining them
with Modifier keys like Shift or Control.
The type-ahead feature is also changed in selection mode to only move
keyboard focus without changing the selection.
This way keyboard users are less likely to clear their selection by
mistake. Regression tests are added for these selection mode controls.
The code changes to change this keyboard behaviour are quite minimal.
Most of the added code is for making selection mode accessible. That's
because we need to make sure the changed control scheme is properly
announced and communicated or a blind user will be left utterly
confused why the normal keyboard controls "stopped working".
Enabling or disabling selection mode is announced to accessibility
software. Furthermore whenever focus goes to the main view, the
selection mode state is also mentioned when active.
BUG: 458091
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The screen reader Orca has seen some fundamental changes between
Orca 46 and Orca 47. While they are improvements overall, they do
require changes to Dolphin to preserve the intended user
experience for Orca users.
The biggest change is perhaps that Orca will now not only announce
changes to the currently focused item, but also of its parent,
which means we do not need to pass focus around between file items
and the main view within Dolphin, but can keep focus on the file
items most of the time. This commit implements this.
The only exception of when we cannot have focus on the items within
the main view is when the current location is empty or not loaded
yet. Only then is the focus moved to the view itself and the
placeholderMessage is announced.
This commit worsens the UX for users of Orca 46 or older, so this
should only be merged once most users are on Orca 47 or later.
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This commit brings the main view of Dolphin into a usable state
accessibility-wise. Users of screen readers should have a way better
experience while browsing files and folders and navigating along the
file system hierarchy.
This commit fixes most of the remaining already-identified
accessibility issues listed in
https://invent.kde.org/teams/accessibility/collaboration/-/issues/28,
but not all. Namely, these should now be fixed:
1. Orca should read the element type in dolphin (file, folder, device,
link to folder, link to file)
2. Orca should read complete label in icon and compact view mode,
currently it only speaks the name, but there could be additional
information like the number of elements or the file size.
3. Orca is not able to announce Selecting / Unselecting files in
Dolphin. It also never announces how many items are selected in total.
(Announcing the total selection can be done by reading out the view
element or by pressing the Tab key to get to the status bar with the
relevant information.)
4. Dolphin opens on the home directory, but Orca doesn't tell you so.
Consider enclosing the area in a frame/panel which updates its
accessible name each time you modify the current path by entering or
leaving a directory.
5. I don't know what the folder presentation widget is, but it should
be presented as a grid view. Currently, we have a terrible experience
because the entire row of folders is read at once, with no indication
that we can move left and right with the arrows to go between the
elements of a row. When I found that out, however, I discovered that
when you're on the last icon of the first row and press right arrow,
you get to the first icon of the next row, but that's not announced,
instead, the whole row is announced at once
6. Orca should announce the current elements instead of "layered pane"
when the Folder / File view gets the focus in dolphin
7. Orca reads only name in Table View only of Dolphin
8. Items are sometimes confusingly announced as "collapsed" in contexts
in which there is no concept of collapsing/expanding e.g. in icon view
mode.
A lot of code was moved around and renamed. The three accessibility
classes, which all used to be in the same file, are moved into separate
files.
*Acknowledgement*
Thanks to Christian Hempfling and bgt lover for testing as well as
originally identifying a lot of the pain points being addressed here.
This work is part of a my project funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund,
a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European
Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG
Communications Networks, Content and Technology.
https://kde.org/announcements/2024_ngi_openletter/
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Tapping the forward or back mouse buttons quickly enough makes Dolphin
interpret the action as a double-click of the button in question and
handle it in mouseDoubleClickEvent() instead of its normal button
handler. This means that certain button presses might seem delayed or
"swallowed" when quickly navigating forwards or backwards through the
history.
Since a double-click of the forward or back button is currently
meaningless, fix this by emitting a normal mouseButtonPressed event for
those buttons in the double-click handler and skipping any further event
processing.
Co-authored-by: Felix Ernst <[email protected]>
CCBUG: 485295
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Add test for double-click activation.
BUG: 485295
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Items should only be selected if the user wants to act on them.
However, previous to this commit we sometimes selected items even
when there is no reason to assume that the user would like to act
on them. Such selections are dangerous because they make it more
likely that the user manipulates items by accident which they
never even explicitly selected.
Example: The "Up" action is used to navigate to the parent folder.
This will implicitly select the folder one emerged from after
opening the parent folder, so just one accidental press of the
Delete key will lead to data loss if the press goes unnoticed. This
scenario would have been avoided if no folder had been selected
automatically.
The above example becomes even more dangerous if the user is acting
with elevated privileges.
The following implicit selections of items are being removed:
- Selecting items that are being activated
- Selecting folders one emerges from
Even though these items will no longer be selected after these
actions, they will still be marked as current.
The only downside I see is that our indication of which item is "current" is a lot weaker than the selection highlight, so it might be more difficult to spot which folder one has emerged from. However, this could be counter-acted with some other temporary indication if this really turns out to be a problem.
The only downside I see is that our indication of which item is
"current" is a lot weaker than the selection highlight, so it might be
more difficult to spot which folder one has emerged from. However, this
could be counter-acted with some other temporary indication if this
really turns out to be a problem.
BUG: 424723
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Default action is select-all.
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region
Rubber band was being incorrectly created for a right click in an empty region.
Handle this case in KItemListController::onPress().
BUG: 484881
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BUG: 484688
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This MR fixes some issues related to RTL scripts:
- wrong layout in Compact View mode
- broken horizontal scrolling in Icon View and Details View modes
- broken navigation with left and right arrow keys in Details View mode
BUG: 484012
BUG: 449493
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NO_CHANGELOG
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Before starting autoActivationTimer, check that we're hovering the item on top of a directory.
If we don't check for it, the the autoActivationTimer will try to open the hovered item
in it's default application, which can be distracting and break the actual action
the user was trying to do, like moving the file to a directory.
BUG:479960
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This commit adds an animation for folders that makes clear that
they will open or expand soon. This is the case when the option to
open folders during drag operations is enabled and a user drags an
item on top of a folder.
The animation goes like this:
- Replace the folder's icon with the "folder-open" icon
- Go back to the folder's original icon
- Replace the folder's icon with the "folder-open" icon once more
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While using right-to-left languages most of Dolphin is mirrored.
However, the logic of what happens when the arrow keys are pressed to
move between items in the main view was never adapted to account for
that. Basically nothing works as expected because of this. It's more
like dealing with a psychopath who misinterprets every command you give:
Left is right, right is left, up is most of the time right but sometimes
not, down is most the time left but sometimes not.
This commit fixes and adapts the logic if a right-to-left layout is used.
This fully fixes icon view mode and improves compact view mode, though
compact view mode still has more issues which aren't addressed here.
This work for the benefit of the minority that use right-to-left
languages both in Europe and the world is sponsored by NLnet and the
European Commission which I think is beautfiul.
BUG: 453933
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Before this commit, Dolphin's main view would not react to any
context menu events. It only showed context menus based on
hard-coded mouse or keyboard events i.e. mouse right-click and
presses of the "Menu" key.
This commit removes those hard-coded reactions and instead makes it
so the view shows a context menu whenever a QContextMenuEvent is
received. Therefore, a context menu will now be opened when any
platform- or system-specific context menu triggers are invoked e.g.
the Shift+F10 keyboard shortcut.
Aside from this, the only side-effect is a partial removal of an
unrelated bug: Previously, the hover highlight on items was never
cleared when the header column in details view mode was hovered.
With this commit, the hover is now correctly cleared most of the
time.
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As an unintended side-effect of d9a18b04ea0b1b4e427f45083fdc0cdec87cbbfd
items would no longer be selected in icon view mode when the selection
rectangle intersected with the item's icon. This commit fixes this.
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An item, on being scrolled to, is always located at the nearest edge of
the view. This is not always convenient. Allow specifying where the item
should be positioned with respect to the view in scrollToItem().
BUG: 423884
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Sets a rectangular, non-full-width rubberband as the new default.
User selection is made wherever the rubberband intersects with the row.
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Allow entering selection mode by touching an already selected item.
BUG: 462778
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Use the screen position for a touch event to calculate the start drag distance.
BUG: 464594
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* speeds up incremental builds as changes to a header will not always
need the full mocs_compilation.cpp for all the target's headers rebuild,
while having a moc file sourced into a source file only adds minor
extra costs, due to small own code and the used headers usually
already covered by the source file, being for the same class/struct
* seems to not slow down clean builds, due to empty mocs_compilation.cpp
resulting in those quickly processed, while the minor extra cost of the
sourced moc files does not outweigh that in summary.
Measured times actually improved by some percent points.
(ideally CMake would just skip empty mocs_compilation.cpp & its object
file one day)
* enables compiler to see all methods of a class in same compilation unit
to do some sanity checks
* potentially more inlining in general, due to more in the compilation unit
* allows to keep using more forward declarations in the header, as with the
moc code being sourced into the cpp file there definitions can be ensured
and often are already for the needs of the normal class methods
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CCBUG: 196772
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If a spacebar is used as a keyboard shortcut to activate the Selection Mode, then allow this shortcut to be triggered only if the view has a keyboard focus.
BUG: 465489
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KFileItemModel::supportsDroppin now returns the rootItem when -1 is passed and checks for write access.
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Before this commit, the "Space" keyboard shortcut was bound to
triggering selection mode by default. After this commit, pressing
"Space" will only trigger selection mode when the file view area
has keyboard focus.
Pros:
+ Other buttons in the UI can be triggered with Space once again
just like it is expected from an accessibility point of view.
+ "Type-ahead" searching works once more when typing the space
char for file names containing such a space char.
Cons:
- "Space" can no longer be used to add the currently underlined
item to the selection. Instead "Ctrl+Space" needs to be used.
(However, this is the current status anyway unless a user has
manually unbound "Space" as a shortcut from Selection Mode.)
- The Selection Mode action will no longer show "Space" as its
shortcut in menus.
Overall, I see solutions to all of these problems, but they seem
over-engineered for the issues they are trying to solve, so I
believe this somewhat small commit is the best solution for now.
BUG: 458282
BUG: 458281
CCBUG: 463048
FIXED-IN: 23.04
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on long touch (and not on mouse press) don't pop up the context menu
anymore but enter selection mode, similar behavior to mobile applications.
the full context menu is still available from the actions toolbar
appearing in selection mode
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click-and-holding with a pointing device like a mouse.
This functionality was originally implemented because it seemed
useful to save users the effort of entering selection mode
explicitly by using its corresponding action.
However, click-and-holding to trigger anything is not really an
expected behaviour. (This contrasts with touch devices where
press-and-holding is common to trigger something.)
Aside from the above reasoning, the click-and-hold behaviour was
also buggy so that selection mode was entered in a couple of
situations that weren't strictly about click-and-holding.
So this commit removes the functionality and the bugs.
BUG: 457973
BUG: 458129
CCBUG: 457975
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Now uses the same method as for touch long-press detection.
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- Make Esc leave selection mode and have it only clear selection
when already outside selection mode.
- Let translators know that the "More" overflow button should only
have a short text on it.
- Fix a crash that happened when any code tried to exit selection
mode even though selection mode had never been enabled to begin
with.
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Thanks to Steffen Hartleib for the help.
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- Various code improvements
- Smoother animations
- The bottom bar in General Mode only becomes visible if items are
currently selected
- Removed the selection mode action from the default toolbar since
it can already be toggled in various ways
- More documentation
- Some cleaning
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The selection mode action is a checkable toggle action named
"Select Files and Folders" which has "Space" as the default
shortcut.
In selection mode a bottom bar with contextual actions is shown.
These should mostly mirror the actions which are available through
the right-click context menu aka DolphinContextMenu.
Resizing of the window might make a overflow button appear in the
bottom selection mode bar.
This commit makes press and hold in the view activate selection
mode. This behaviour is not triggered if the press and hold is
used to either start a rubberband selection or a drag operation
within a short time. The length of the short timeframe is defined
by a QStyleHint. This is currently not implemented in touch
because I can't test it.
Mix the selection mode bars' background colors using a nice
combination of colors from the current color scheme
BUG: 427202
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this enables sandboxed application to receive drop events
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Since d3839617193e92463806580699caa595c892b8a6 in details view mode
clicking anywhere within the row is considered a click on the item.
That commit also changed it so that dropping files anywhere inside
a row would make it so the files are received by the folder of that
row.
This commit reverts the drop behaviour to be identical to the old
one.
I am having trouble explaining why this is better because one can
look at it in different ways. Bottom line is that one doesn't
really feel like one is dropping files inside a folder unless the
mouse cursor is actually directly above a folder's icon or name.
Another argument is that it is normal behaviour to just throw files
onto an application and the files then being opened by it.
Having potentially large parts of the view area covered by the rows
of folders means that there has to be more of a conscious effort to
not drop the files inside one of the folders by accident while with
this commit one has to aim precisely onto a folder to do it
intentionally.
CCBUG: 453700
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If one was fast to open the right-click context menu on the row of
an item in details view mode, the hover highlight would persist
while the context menu for the view was open.
This one-liner makes it so the highlight on the row is always
removed before the right-click context menu for the view is opened
so it is as clear as possible that the newly opened context menu
has no relation to the fileItem.
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Before this change, right-clicking the row of an unselected item
in details view mode would be in a weird state:
- It didn't really count as a click on the item because the item
didn't get selected by this click before opening the context
menu.
- It didn't really count as a click on the view background either
because the actions that showed up depended on the item in
that row.
This commit fixes this by considering a right-click in the same row
as an unselected item as a click on the view background.
The behaviour of right-clicking the icon or name of a file directly
is unchanged.
This fixes the following bugs:
- The Paste action that shows up when right-clicking in the
unselected row of a folder now works (instead of doing
nothing). It now pastes the clipboard contents onto the view
background.
- When right-clicking the unselected row of a file (not a folder)
a Paste action once again shows up.
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(Part of my work towards !273)
Currently, when items are selected and a user right-clicks a selected item
while having the Ctrl key pressed down, the item is first
deselected and then a context menu is opened that doesn't involve
the item that was just deselected.
This is slightly confusing because normally one right-clicks an
item to see its context menu. Right-click being able to deselect
an item seems like unintended functionality in the first place but
in this scenario it also means that the intended opening of a
context menu for the pressed item doesn't even happen.
There is a good chance that nobody is even aware of this behaviour
because the normal way to deselect an item would be to
Ctrl+Left-Click if anything. Why would someone choose to open a
context menu and deselect items in a single step? Why would they
have selected an item they don't want to open a context menu for in
the first place?
Because of a discussion in this merge request deselecting on Ctrl+Middle-Click was also
removed for consistency with Ctrl+Right-Click and
Ctrl+Shift+Middle-Click.
This commit also makes a later implementation of a selection mode
more straightforward.
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