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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [Bug 55474] enabling 'automatically select icons' changes current mailbox folder
From:       Luis Pedro Coelho <luis_pedro () netcabo ! pt>
Date:       2003-03-19 0:26:56
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Le Mercredi 19 Mars 2003 00:21, Ingo Klöcker a écrit :
> On Tuesday 18 March 2003 20:12, Carsten Burghardt wrote:
> > Proposed fix attached.
>
> With this patch a folder is marked as selected although the contents of
> another folder is shown. This is IMO very confusing. OTOH this odd
> behavior is consistent with the behavior of Konqueror.
>
> Another thing is that with this patch a user might have to double click
> a folder in order to open it (if he uses double click to open
> files/folders). This would also make KMail more consistent with
> Konqueror and probably other KDE apps. But it will certainly confuse
> long-time KMail users which use double click everywhere else.
>
> I tend to accept this patch. But I'd like to hear what the other
> developers think about this.
> The first point is IMO no problem since the whole autoselect feature is
> anyway a completely stupid thing. People who use this will have to live
> with the confusion it causes.
> The second point, OTOH, will dramatically change the KMail experience
> for some users.
>
> Opinions?

I don't have any idea what you are talking about.
 
I use select-on-mouseover on kde and kmail from HEAD and it has shown the 
behaviour the patch says it provides for some time, though previously it was 
like the bug describes. I must say I much prefer this behaviour.
Had I seen the bug earlier, I might have closed with FIXED :)
 
A word about select-on-mouseover:

I use it and I think it is sometimes helpful for konqy as a file-browser. 
IMHO, drawing a square around a file to select it is stupid bc some users 
will not find it and it takes some mouse precision which is sometimes 
difficult especially with a mousepad on a laptop. So I do think that the 
feature has it's uses. I notice that one of the posters on the bug also 
mentioned he was using a laptop and had problems controlling the mouse.

The difference with regards to konqy as a file-browser is that there selecting 
a file does nothing at all, it just selects it so that other operations like 
Delete have a target to work on. Here it would be pretty stupid because 
"selecting" would be more like "open". It doesn't mean anything to just mark 
a folder as "selected" and not open it.

A true fix, though that could be difficult to implement, would be to restringe 
the select-on-mouse-over feature to places where it makes sense, while 
disabling it here, for example.

Regards,
-- 
Luis Pedro Coelho

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