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undoIT Registered Member Posts 75 Karma 1 OS	Dolphin drag-to-select rectangle Thu Apr 12, 2012 11:36 pm As of KDE 4.8, the drag to select rectangle is only able to select rows because it is always at 100% width. Previously, the drag-to-select rectangle could be any size and would only select file/folders that it overlapped. Is there any way to get the old drag-to-select behavior back? There are particular instances where it is very handy. GNU/Linux user since 2007 \| Keyboard Shortcuts \| Coupon Code Swap
bcooksley Administrator Posts 19765 Karma 87 OS	Re: Dolphin drag-to-select rectangle Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:39 am Is this with the Details view mode by any chance? I cannot reproduce with the other types. KDE Sysadmin [img]content/bcooksley_sig.png[/img]
undoIT Registered Member Posts 75 Karma 1 OS	Re: Dolphin drag-to-select rectangle Fri Apr 13, 2012 3:34 am bcooksley wrote:Is this with the Details view mode by any chance? I cannot reproduce with the other types. yup, details view. thanks for mentioning that, i can switch to compact view and get the good ole rectangle.
undoIT Registered Member Posts 75 Karma 1 OS	Re: Dolphin drag-to-select rectangle Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:47 am Is there any way to make folders expandable in Compact view mode? I can't find a setting for that anymore, it used to be under Configure Dolphin, maybe only for Details view mode. Now there doesn't seem to be and option anymore. I went through everything that seemed applicable in System Settings and couldn't find it either, unless I just didn't see it.
Peter Penz Registered Member Posts 11 Karma 0	Re: Dolphin drag-to-select rectangle Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:39 pm undoIT wrote:Is there any way to get the old drag-to-select behavior back? There are particular instances where it is very handy. No, there is no option available for the old behavior. Of course there will always be corner-cases where the old behavior might be useful, but the new behavior is way more efficient for the default usecases.
Peter Penz Registered Member Posts 11 Karma 0	Re: Dolphin drag-to-select rectangle Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:44 pm undoIT wrote:Is there any way to make folders expandable in Compact view mode? I can't find a setting for that anymore, it used to be under Configure Dolphin, maybe only for Details view mode. Now there doesn't seem to be and option anymore. I went through everything that seemed applicable in System Settings and couldn't find it either, unless I just didn't see it. The compact-view does not support expandable folders, only the details-view. Since 4.8.0 with the new view-engine the details-view enabled expandable folders per default and the option has been removed. However users requested to get back the option (see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289090 ). Now with 4.8.2 it is possible to enable/disable the setting by editing a configuration file (see comment 34 from bug 289090 for more details). In 4.9.0 a toggle-button will be available again like in older Dolphin versions.