Re: [Evolution] Selecting multiple messages buggy

[Andrew Conkling <andrewski fr st>]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 16:00 +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 15:43, Andrew Conkling wrote:
>
> > Well, what if I wanted to delete multiple threads in my Evolution
> > folder?  I'd select the first message of the first thread, use Shift to
> > select all through the last, use Ctrl to select the first message of the
> > next thread, and while holding down Ctrl use Shift to select the last
> > message of the second thread.  That seems like it should be standard
> > behaviour to me at this point and most applications that I use that have
> > lists in them reflect this feature.
>
> I believe that the behaviour you describe is standard on Windows. I have
> no idea if it is standard on Mac OS. It is not standard in GNOME: you
> can not select multiple groups as you describe in nautilus in "View as
> list" mode or in evolution 1.4.6.
>
> I must admit that I was surprised that it doesn't work as you expected,
> but it is entirely possible that there may be very good reasons for
> that. I know that a lot of work was done for GNOME 2.0 to make it highly
> accessible to the disabled, and a lot of work was done by the usability
> team. It could well be that the behaviour you expected would cause some
> problem either with accessibility or with usability.
>
> > Can it be added?
>
> I suspect that if it were to be added it would have to be added to GNOME
> in general as opposed to just Evolution, as the Evolution developers are
> trying very hard to make Evolution GNOME HIG-compliant so that it can be
> included as part of the core desktop in GNOME 2.8.

I am thinking of a few programs--EasyTAG, Opera, ROX, X-CD-Roast--three
of which utilise GTK--EasyTAG, X-CD-Roast, and ROX.  X-CD-Roast even has
a checkbox in their configuration to turn it on or off.  If it were
rejected and not merely overlooked, at least I would suggest making a
checkbox in the settings.