Hello everyone!
I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right forum, feel free to move the thread where you think it's right...

I think that the column view in dolphin is really useful and fast if you use single-click mode, but I'd prefer to use double click for opening files (mostly for muscle-memory reasons, and because it's too easy for me to open a file by error). The problem is that dolphin's column view becomes really slow and awkward to use when you enable double click.

Is there a way to enable single-click only in column view and only for directories?

This way we could get fast and comfortable file navigation also when we prefer double click, and just avoid the possibility of mis-clicks on files.

Or maybe it could be better to add an arrow or "plus" icon as in detail/tree view, so we can just click on it to enter the directory...

regards
gerlos

I do not believe this is currently possible. You would need to open a feature request at bugs.kde.org to get this made possible. Although I do think that treating directories and files differently, and only for the column view is not normal.

I agree with gerlos because there is really no reason why you would need to just "select" one folder - if you click a folder in column view, a new column appears, but you can still select more folders.

(If I'm not mistaken, that is how OSX does it, but I haven't used it in a few years so I can't be sure)

Alec wrote:(If I'm not mistaken, that is how OSX does it, but I haven't used it in a few years so I can't be sure)

Yes, I remember too that OSX does it this way.

bcooksley wrote:Although I do think that treating directories and files differently, and only for the column view is not normal.

I agree, it's not normal to do things differently, so maybe would be better to add an icon near directories, like in tree view, to "expand"/enter them.

What do you think?

Many KDE applications do not break from what settings are applied in a system wide manner. Most applications do not have to do anything special to immediately follow settings such as Double click.