Created attachment 310835 [details] patch to select newly created items That's a regression with the new view engine. The patch applies against dolphin-4.8.3, did not test 4.8.1 and 4.8.2, yet.
Tried with 4.8.1 and 4.8.2 - both succeeded.
Please send the patch via https//git.reviewboard.kde.org/ to upstream and link here back.
I already posted the patch upstream (see URL), and asked if I should post it on reviewboard - answer was no, not neccessary. So we only need to wait for upstream marking the bug as resolved fixed.
Upstream commit: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-baseapps/repository/revisions/0139537a35d636356fa088c61557baf13bb2e71b
Thanks, fixed. + 07 May 2012; Johannes Huber <johu@gentoo.org> +dolphin-4.8.3-r1.ebuild, + +files/dolphin-4.8.3-fix-selection.patch, -dolphin-4.8.3.ebuild, + -files/dolphin-4.8.0-fix-selection.patch: + Revision bump adds patch to fix selection and focus issues by Franz Fellner + <alpine.art.de@googlemail.com> wrt bug #414693.