https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410625
--- Comment #4 from kunir...@gmail.com --- (In reply to Maik Qualmann from comment #3) > Dolphin as an example has exactly the same behavior as digiKam. Yes. It too has same issues. File manager has little use for previews, I rarely use it, most of the time it is off and only icons are displayed. With simple icon view, icon size is set relatively smaller than in thumbnail view, so selection icon gets less prominence, I think that is the reason I hardly ever make use of it in dolphin. In current form selector icon handling has major short comings from user interaction point of view. For instance: when something is already selected and mouse hovers over an unselected thumbnail, selector icon shows plus (+), which indicates that thumbnail would get added to selection, but if click happens outside selector icon (but inside thumbnail), instead every thing else gets deselected. You see why it is confusing as it is. Icon should instead indicate "deselect followed by select this", which is not easy to convey clearly using icons. VLC android app has one icon that come close, which is play this and then stop, it is basically a play icon followed by a box icon, but it too is accompanied by text description. By logic, default (left) click action should the most obvious one, when selection exists it is a) to select current (under the mouse) thumbnail, if it is not already selected or b) to deselect current thumbnail, if it is already selected. It is not, clear selection and select current thumbnail. Period. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
