Re: First UI component needing replacement.

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

Clicking with a mouse, AND pressing a key on a keyboard, AND remembering to
not click without continuing to hold down CTRL is a BETTER UI decision than
offering checkboxes?  The checkboxes can come on or off just by clicking the
file -- it doesn't have to be just clicking inside the box.  Lots of
checkbox areas work that way.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Rose" <menthos@menthos.com>
To: "Gnome GUI list" <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: First UI component needing replacement.


> "Michael T. Babcock" wrote:
> > Wouldn't it make more sense to offer checkboxes next to filenames for
> > multi-select?
>
> I think it's a bad idea. Then you'd have to imply the use of selecting a
> check box for opening of single files too (for the sake of consistency),
> which I think is a UI horror (check boxes are small and not so easy to
> hit, and why should you be forced to click on it instead of the file
> name?).
>
> No, the way to select multiple files should probably be SHIFT+mouseclick
> and CTRL+mouseclick (like it already is, both on Windows and in gmc).
>
> Christian
>
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