Right clicking doesn't select item.

[gmez]

In certain tabs, right-clicking on items in lists will not select the item. This occurs in the Downloads and Search tabs, at least. The Buddy List tab acts as expected: when you right click over a user's name, their name is selected and the right-click menu appears.

[daelstorm]

This is not a bug. This is because you are allowed (and encouraged) to select multiple items with the normal left-click and do some action with them with the popup which is launched by the right-click.

Allowing the right-mouse-button to select items in transfers or search would simply lead to user annoyance at having their selections cleared.

[anonymous]

I don't understand how this would lead to annoyance.

I like right-clicking a file and choosing "Download containing folder". Having to left-click first is annoying and a waste of time. There are many other situations where perferming an action on a single file is desired.

If this isn't a bug, it's a very pointless and annoying feature.

[daelstorm]

Let's use an example, shall we?

Normally, Right-clicking will simply open a popup menu and access the list of selected files.

1. The user wants to download a few files - very specifically files - from search results.
2. The user left-clicks on a file, and the Ctrl + left-clicks on a bunch more to select multiple files.
3. The user now has half-a-dozen files selected. If right-clicking selects a file what is going to happen?
4. The user right-clicks, and to-(his|her)-disgust, all the files that were left-clicked are unselected, and where'over his mouse was hovering now has a new selected file.

Now, there is one other alternative... that right-click appends the hovered file to the selected files list instead of clearing it. But this will again cause confusion or undesired results for the vast majority of users.

In every UI I can recall using right-clicking doesn't select anything. Perhaps there are some out there, with a few hundred users (who probably complain about it). but I'm unaware of a single one.

One possibility I've just considered is if there is an empty selected files list, allowing right-click to select a file. This, I think, is the least annoying possibility.

[daelstorm]

In transfers I added 'right-click selects if nothing is selected' in r308