RE: shift=and-close-the-current-folder?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 12:10, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > > From: Alexander Larsson [mailto:alexl redhat com]
> > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:26, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > > > > From: Alexander Larsson [mailto:alexl redhat com]
> > > > > You're missing one thing: shift-click is extend selection in
> > > > > the list view (and we want to extend this to the icon view 
> > > > > too), so shift-double-click doesn't work well (it can 
> > > unselect items).
> > > > 
> > > > I didn't realise that it would have that effect. Isn't it 
> > OK if the
> > > > item is reselected afer the 2nd click of the shift-double-click? 
> > > > That's actually what happens now.
> > > 
> > > Eh? Which would be reselected? shift-click unselection is
> > > quite complicated. It depends on both what was selected and 
> > > which item was selected last.
> > > 
> > > Simple example:
> > > range select a list with shift-click, then shift-click on any
> > > selected item but the one you clicked last. Now items between 
> > > the shift-clicked one and the last one gets unselected. 
> > > 
> > > Things get even more complicated if you mix this with
> > > non-range selects made using i.e. ctrl-click.
> > 
> > Oh yes. Oh well. It looks like Shift is out of the picture.
> 
> I'm reviving this thread because:
> 1 There seems to be a lot of opposition to 
>   1.1 using ctrl instead of the ususual shift "modifier key" for this.
>   1.2 removing the ctrl-alt-arrow switch-workspace metacity feature,
>       instead of removing the shift-alt-arrow move-to-workspace 
>       feature.
> - I think that the problem of shift-double-click changing the 
>   selection is not a big problem. The Mac OS already has this feature 
>   and this problem and I think hardly anybody ever noticed it before.
>   I think "opening many items and closing the single parent window at
>   the same time" is not a common operation. It's more common that you
>   want to close the parent window when navigating to an item, opening
>   one folder each time, and that will not have this problem.
> 
> Thoughts?

Also, what does shift-double-click mean if there are several selected
items?

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