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

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> 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.

Murray Cumming
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