Re: [Usability] Should Shift+Ctrl+Click select a range or just the item clicked?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 10 May 2006, at 04:56, Gabriel Burt wrote:

> In nautilus and f-spot, if you select an item and then hold shift+ctrl
> and click on another item, it will select the second item, but not
> select the items in between.  On Windows it would select the range.  
> The HIG doesn't seem to address this case.  Is there a consensus on
> the desired behavior, and if so can it get added to the HIG?

I filed a bug about this years ago:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75484

I'm not sure it's really a HIG issue; the toolkit should just make  
sure it works like that everywhere, unless we can think of any common  
exceptions.

Cheeri,
Calum.


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