I was about to agree with @Slater91, but as usual things are not as straight forward
If you enter a folder using the Enter-Key and then use “Go back”, the previous selection will be restored, meaning the folder you entered will be shown selected (and affect the “Create New Folder” Shortcut)
If you select a folder and navigate around just by using “Go back” or “Go forward” the selection will also be restored on each view
Now, if you navigate into the folder by using the Enter-Key but use “Go up”: the folder will not be selected anymore
But, even more curious: if you decide to instead enter a folder by double clicking on it, no matter if you use “Go up” or “Go back”: the selection will always be gone
There’s probably a difference in navigating through the history (similar to how a browser might remember a web page state on using forward or back) compared to other navigation, which feels right, but for some reason double clicking “unselects”, which is a bit weird.
By the way, over in a different thread meven already wrote how he actually intended to go back to the previous “New folder” behavior after the poll results, but things seemed to have been mixed up by accident. So this thread can probably also slowly be laid to rest now.
Thanks for this educational update on the navigation aspects… as you said, I was using Alt↑.. so I was wrongly assuming that the folder would never be selected.
Thanks for trying that. Your findings only reinforce my point: there is now a hodgepodge of different behaviours, because things were changed to accommodate this new behaviour, but not uniformly. Which makes exactly zero sense! Why should the folder be selected based on whether you used your mouse or your keyboard to navigate? This will be another point to touch on later, in a different discussion/bug report, so that we go back some semblance of sanity.
It’s good to know that Méven will restore the old behaviour; as things stand, I haven’t updated to Dolphin 25.12 exactly to avoid the new one. I hope a fix will be merged soon so that I can update my system…
That’s a great news, I was really annoyed by the change in behavior! Do you have any links/references to the change? I’m on 25.12.2 but Dolphin still creates directories inside the selected one.
“The best implementation, will be to have two totally distinct actions, one for the shortcut and one for the context menu, so the shortcut is not visible there and we can have a distinct shortcut for each.”
I recently adjusted my CapsLock - so now to ‘latch’ the caps, I must press Shift_CapsLock (because I don’t use it often enough) and then CapsLock is an extra Escape.
This makes it more trivial to Escape with the left pinky, just as using the spacebar… so if you reach left to press Ctrl_Shift_N to create a new folder, you must escape.
I also find it annoying, but then some people expect that if a folder is highlighted a new folder should go inside.
Feels wrong… it’s also easy to enter folder1/folder2/folder3 for nesting… so now the biggest headache is if you’re IN a folder (maybe AudioDump) and want to create folders in the main view for mp3, aac, flac…
I switched from Fedora to Kubuntu 25.10. Dolphin 25.08.3 is available in the backports PPA and works perfectly fine on my end.
Kubuntu 26.04 is coming soon, so we’ll see how things evolve. In the meantime, I’ve set up a development environment to build Dolphin from source with my own patch if necessary. I may be able to provide it via Launchpad should others be interested.
