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Original von user222

1.) cannot show hidden files and folders

2.) pressing [up[ at the top jumps to the last row in the window
3.) pressing [down] jumps to the top row in the window
4.) pressing [left] at the leftmost row jumps to rightmost row above it,
5.) pressing [right] at the rightmost row jumps to the leftmost row below it

The first one is not true: Select the option
View -> Show hidden files
You can also define a shortcut to toggle this under
Settings -> Configure shortcuts
That's what I did.


The rest are not bugs but features. Hold down the respective key and see how the selection
moves over all the items in a logical manner (logical at least to me).

although you're right that this is the "logical" thing to do i personally think its bad design. the reason is that i often want to zoom all the way to the bottom/top/left/right of the window i am in by holding down whatever key -- now i can't do that. also, sometimes you get this arrangement:

[code:1]
--Window--------
- -
- 1 2 3 -
- -
- 4 5 6 -
- -
- 7 8 9 -
----------------
0
[/code:1]

That is very bad ASCII art where you are looking at a file window and each number is a file. Lets say you have the bottom middle file selected, file 8. You want to select file 0. Well, since you can't see how many items are on that bottom row (they are cut off by the window) you're sunk, unless you use the mouse (much slower). Unless you dutifilly tap the arrow key over to 7, then down one, examine the contents of the row, and so on, you're going to overshoot and jump back to either 6 or 3, totally not where you wanted to be. However if these features were not in place you could just hold the left arrow for a second, then hold the down arrow for a second, and you'd be there. I do it all the time (in Windows at work)

Although I agree with you it's not a bug

Quoted

Original von pojo


Unless you dutifilly tap the arrow key over to 7, then down one, examine the contents of the row, and so on, you're going to overshoot and jump back to either 6 or 3, totally not where you wanted to be. However if these features were not in place you could just hold the left arrow for a second, then hold the down arrow for a second, and you'd be there. I do it all the time (in Windows at work)

Wow, that's really complicated. ;-)

I would just hold down the *right* arrow and wait. Or I just press Ctrl-end.

haha, true. it is a very picky thing. good idea about holding down the right arrow. still irks me as inefficient, but its progress

BTW: I think there *are* real bugs in the way the selection moves but I could not find a pattern yet to create a good bug report. Sometimes the selection seems to jump in weird ways when moving with the arrow keys.