Re: Singe click selection with checkboxes

[Daniel Pörsch <danielpoe gmx de>]

Kristoffer Lund�<kristoffer.lunden <at> gmail.com> writes:

> What I really wanted was a way to simply click on the files/folders as
> easily as activating them. I was thinking about middle clicks and other
> things, but then it struck me: why not simple checkboxes? It would even
> make lots of sense for total newbies, since it's quite a common
> metafor. 

Well middle-clicks are not that bad. A old filemanager called xfm used it to
extend selection and ROX (http://rox.sourceforge.net) uses it when in
double-click mode. Since middle click is unused at the moment it might be nice
to give it a try.

Rgds,
Daniel