Re: Right click and selection

Tony Houghton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.rox.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:40:23 +1300
Keith Hopper <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>,
>    Tony Houghton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Another feature of other file managers I miss in ROX is shift-click to
> > select everything between the current selection and the clicked item.
> 
>      At the risc of being labelled anti-social, that particular feature of
> file managers is one thing which I absolutely hate (it only gets used by
> accident). My reasoning? My definition of the word 'between' is particular
> to a given context - most often it is not what the file system 'thinks' it
> is.

I wouldn't have thought it would be common to shift-click by accident.
My most hated accident in a file manager is Windows' hover-to-select. It
almost makes the single click option unusable.

I think the most straightforward definition of "between" would be
everything between the farthest selected item from the pointer and the
item under the pointer in the current sort order. Position is determined
logically rather than physically, ie act as if all the rows in a grid
view are merged into a single row.

-- 
TH * http://www.realh.co.uk

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