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Hi

When you use Details View it might be difficult to handle file selections, depending on the icon size. If the icons are too small then you have to move the mouse to the left-top of the row, wait for the "+" to appear and then (un)select. This is too much time IMHO.

If you want to see this toggle your view to Details View, and decrease "a lot" the icon size. Then play a bit by (de)selecting files..

Now take a look at this:
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6108/dolphin2.jpg

By default you can only interact with the blue portion of name's cell, and nothing happens if you (left) click over the padding (red area).

As far as I remember in konqueror 3.5.x this red area was used for selection. I mean, by clicking over the name (blue area) the file should be opened, but if you clicked over the red area then it was handled like a file selection. THIS is what I am looking for.

Examples:
- file1 is selected and you click on file2's red area. Then file1 is unselected and file2 is selected.
- file1 is selected and you CTRL + click on file2's read area. Then both are selected.
- there is no selection and you click (or CTRL + click) on file1's read area. Then file1 is selected.
- file1 and file2 are selected, and you click on whatever-file's blue area. Then this new file (maybe one of them) is the one selected, and of course it's opened.

In the end it looks quite simple.

What do you think?

Regards

A example scenario where this really helps is:
- You have many files in current folder, and there is at least on of the selected files hidden (let's say.. file1000)(because of scrolling).
- Then you want to select file1, and if you just use CTRL + click then you won't get what you want. You will get 2 files selected, and you might be in trouble if, for example, you want to remove file1. You can imagine what will happen then.. (that happened to me, and I assumed it was fine after using SHIFT + delete, so I directly confirmed.. btw the second file was also removed, as expected)

In the end the request basically merges 2 actions in 1:
- Unselect all files.
- Select the new one.

Regards