Always go back/forward in history when pressing the respective buttons

Before this patch, pressing one of these buttons while an item is
hovered selected this item. The motivation for this behavior was to
provide a fast way to select items. However, this was counter-intuitive
and confusing for many users.

BUG: 310288
FIXED-IN: 4.13.0
REVIEW: 116469

diff --git a/src/kitemviews/kitemlistcontroller.cpp b/src/kitemviews/kitemlistcontroller.cpp
index 7344b9960f07ec72eb7f47d6a76caa66b063d75c..61337d1664433def2015864fa5d69f8d6675871d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/kitemviews/kitemlistcontroller.cpp
+++ b/src/kitemviews/kitemlistcontroller.cpp
@@ -538,11 +538,10 @@ bool KItemListController::mousePressEvent(QGraphicsSceneMouseEvent* event, const
     m_pressedIndex = m_view->itemAt(m_pressedMousePos);
     emit mouseButtonPressed(m_pressedIndex, event->buttons());
 
-    if ((event->buttons() & (Qt::XButton1 | Qt::XButton2)) && m_pressedIndex < 0) {
-        // Do not select items when clicking the empty part of the view with
-        // the back/forward buttons, see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327412.
-        // Note that clicking an item with these buttons selects it, see comment in
-        // DolphinView::slotMouseButtonPressed(int, Qt::MouseButtons).
+    // TODO: Qt5: Replace Qt::XButton1 by Qt::BackButton and Qt::XButton2 by Qt::ForwardButton
+    if (event->buttons() & (Qt::XButton1 | Qt::XButton2)) {
+        // Do not select items when clicking the back/forward buttons, see
+        // https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327412.
         return true;
     }
 

diff --git a/src/views/dolphinview.cpp b/src/views/dolphinview.cpp
index b68e8aa6ac998447bf56b906159bcac262676676..2769d670d6dd514fc2a4dbf12be8af226e3b7439 100644 (file)
--- a/src/views/dolphinview.cpp
+++ b/src/views/dolphinview.cpp
@@ -1071,17 +1071,15 @@ void DolphinView::slotModelChanged(KItemModelBase* current, KItemModelBase* prev
 
 void DolphinView::slotMouseButtonPressed(int itemIndex, Qt::MouseButtons buttons)
 {
+    Q_UNUSED(itemIndex);
+
     hideToolTip();
 
-    if (itemIndex < 0) {
-        // Trigger the history navigation only when clicking on the viewport:
-        // Above an item the XButtons provide a simple way to select items in
-        // the singleClick mode.
-        if (buttons & Qt::XButton1) {
-            emit goBackRequested();
-        } else if (buttons & Qt::XButton2) {
-            emit goForwardRequested();
-        }
+    // TODO: Qt5: Replace Qt::XButton1 by Qt::BackButton and Qt::XButton2 by Qt::ForwardButton
+    if (buttons & Qt::XButton1) {
+        emit goBackRequested();
+    } else if (buttons & Qt::XButton2) {
+        emit goForwardRequested();
     }
 }