Re: Right click and selection

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:49:54 +0000
Tony Houghton <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

Cant really see the point of a shift click when you can do (multiple)
bounding drags. The apps that provide it nearly always screw up in some
way. 


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