On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:36 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
On 7 Feb, 2006, at 5:10 AM, karderio wrote:
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 21:42 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
If it is possible what you suggest, then that would make it easier to
"rubberband"-select items in the list view, like you can in the icon
view. Dragging the mouse over columns other than icon/filename would
not affect the item under the mouse cursor directly, but rather
affect the selection.
"Rubberbanding" in the list view would be handy, how about activating
"rubberbanding" if the shift key is held down (presuming that key is
not in use) ?
...
As you can see by trying it, Shift is already used for contiguous
selection, Ctrl is used for non-contiguous selection, and Alt is
(unfortunately) used to move the window. But a modifier key wouldn't be
necessary if the behavior described above was implemented.
Just a me-too on how unfortunate the Alt modifier
thing for window moving is. I know of at least
one major piece of third-party software that uses
Alt as a modifier for certain mouse operations,
and it's been doing so since long before Gnome
stole it for window movement.
I always switch it to Super, but I never use it.
There doesn't seem to be a "just turn this off,
please" check box.