Select all files in XDG File Picker with double click as in Dolphin

Brainstorm
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In Dolphin we can select all files at once with a double click in the free space.

Wouldn’t this be nice to have in XDG File Picker dialogs as well?

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Yes it would be.

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In dolphin, this is opt-in and you can have other actions.

That would be useful when opening files, only.

Technically this would be a bit complicated.

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I’m sure it was technically complicated to implement in Dolphin originally.

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Really? I thought double clicking the free space was for bringing up the preview/info panel!

Looking now I see it’s just one of a long list of choices - I don’t remember changing that, but surely CtrlA is the simplest mash to get all selected…

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Feeling little stupid now :front_facing_baby_chick:

Actually i am so used to the double click, that i basically used it in the file picker more accidentally than intentionally. and actually was used to ctrl a for this purpose.

At least “select all” on double click is the default in Dolphin here on neon.

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I think it’s a matter of each their own. Myself in Dolphin CTRL+A to select all, and in the various file pickers I just hold down the left mouse button and drag.

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Well that really depends TBH. For example, you could open Audacious and navigate to open files in a folder, then Ctrl_A select them all, and click to de-select any you don’t want…

It’s good to have the flexibility - but for sure, keyboard with mouse is much better than mouse only.

No, you’re right - I logged in my ‘test’ vanilla user on Manjaro and it’s the same… I don’t remember changing it.