Add a "gutter" to dolphin columns view, to allow initiation of rubberband file selection

[Ian]

I'm curious about a bug I reported to KDE (which they've long since fixed):
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243779

It relates to putting a gutter in each of the columns in dolphin's column view so you can rubberband-select even when there is a full list of files in the column. (Currently, you can only begin a rubberband-select if there is space at the bottom of the column.

This was fixed in SVN literally a year ago:
http://websvn.kde.org/?revision=1184177&view=revision

I'm running Dolphin 1.5 under KDE 4.5.5 on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick), and I don't see this feature enabled. When will it hit the Ubuntu tree? Or has it hit already and is still broken?

[Ian (ifreecarve)]

Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.4.2)
OS: Linux

I LOVE DOLPHIN; Columns view is the single biggest reason that I prefer KDE over Gnome. However, the columns view could be even better.

One difficult task is selecting a large chunk of files from columns view. Say that you have 300 pictures from your camera in a folder, and you want to select 20 or so from the middle of the set. I'd like to be able to just rubberband them, but that is impossible. The entire width of the column is a click target for the files themselves, so I have to select them one at a time.

If you added a few pixels of "background" space on the far right or left of a column, I'd be able to initiate a click-drag action... currently, you can only perform this from the bottom of the column, and then only in situations where the list of files does not completely fill the vertical space.

Google recently did this to their calendar app, and it makes a big difference:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JE4qNpFW6Yk/SLZK9F5MW5I/AAAAAAAAADk/1eVPlTMXFV0/s1600-h/gutter.png

Reproducible: Always

[Peter-penz19 (peter-penz19)]

Thanks for your input, I fully agree that this should be fixed. I hope I can fix this during KDE SC 4.6, but cannot promise a fixed schedule yet.

[FiNeX (finex)]

I like this idea too :-)

[Peter-penz19 (peter-penz19)]

SVN commit 1184177 by ppenz:

Use DolphinTreeView as implementation for the columns instead of QListView. This assures a consistent hover- and selection-behavior with the icons-view and details-view.

BUG: 242357
BUG: 243779

 M +67 -50 dolphincolumnview.cpp
 M +5 -5 dolphincolumnview.h

WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1184177

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream bug was closed "RESOLVED FIXED" on 2010-10-09 so would not have made it into the maverick release which was being used by the reporter.

Probably fixed since the natty release so closing as being fixed in a later release than that used when filing the report.