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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bug 36577: pressing enter when the the backdrop has
From: Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date: 2003-05-06 11:09:41
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On Tuesday 06 of May 2003 12:53, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 May 2003 12:47, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > I think this is a general problem of certain listbox/listview
> > braindamage when it comes to handling of current/selected, especially in
> > the single selection mode:(.
>
> IMHO listbox is much worse than listview. Listview has quite reasonable
> handling, whereas listbox is definitely busted.
>
> > IMHO in single select mode, it should be always ensured that
> > current==selected (and the listbox/listview would be either allowed or
> > not to have unselected item).
>
> I totally agree (I had the same kind of mess with the profile dialog in
> Konqueror).
I can try my luck on qt-bugs@ with this. I'm just afraid I'll end up getting
'sorry, brokeness^H^H^Hbackwards compatibility' :(.
>
> But this has nothing to do with the problem at hand IMHO, since it's
> about a QListView, and about Extended selection mode, not Single.
You left out a small part where I said : For this specific case of desktop
icons, there IMHO should be no icon current/selected by default.
> IMHO the behaviour in Konqueror is fine. But the problem is simply
> that KDesktop often takes focus unintentionnally (just clicking between
> two windows, without really thinking about the desktop icons), and then
> Return has unwanted side effects.
If in the icon view there was no icon selected by default (and
current==selected was ensured), this problem wouldn't exist. Also, that would
avoid the subtle detail that the selected icon is sometimes really selected,
sometimes only current.
--
Lubos Lunak
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