While I’ve been getting used to having to control click to select items without opening them, I find myself missing the “Highlight on Hover” functionality from Windows, I know there’s a setting in Dolphin to make things light up when you hover but it’s not quite the same.
Is there a way to have it select items when I hover over them?
No.
That would be an horrible features IMO, so error-prone and unexpected.
We have the selection mode, shortcut space to do selection with a single click.
You also can use draw rectangles to select batch of files, change view , sorting or grouping to make selection easier.
In term of selection power, dolphin already offers all the bells and whistle AFAICT.
I’d be curious to know your actual use-case.
I might be oversimplifying but from my perspective it would be removing the control click part of selecting a single item and allowing the option to select when I hover for an allotted period of time. However “No” is fine by me, I can get used to current system, as you say, Dolphin has all the things I actually need and some more.