Re: Singe click selection with checkboxes

[Nelson Benítez <gnel cenobioracing com>]

Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 07.09.2005, 08:16 +0000 schrieb Daniel P�h:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> In spatial mode, the middle mouse button does close-behind.

If I'm not wrong, we have the "make non-contiguous selection just with 
the mouse" problem also in double-click mode, where CTRL has to be 
pressed, so it's not a single click mode only problem.

In double-click-mode can be solved by using the middle-click, which atm 
has no special action, just does the same as left click (selects the item).

And for single-click-mode I would also use middle-click because:

 a) We have an unique button for non-contiguous selection that we share 
with double-click mode, so people switching from one mode to another can 
continue using the same way they used to.

 b) In single-click mode, the usecases for non-contiguous selection are 
more than for close-behind [1].

 c) When in single-click-mode AND browser-mode the middle-click is also 
unused, it does the same as left click (open file/folder), because in 
browser-mode there is no close-behind action.

 d) Attending to b) and c), more users would benefit from this, 
exactly, looking at a users list[2] the only ones that don't benefit are 
subset 1-1, while all the others groups benefit from having middle-click 
to perform non-contiguous selections.


[1] I didn't know it existed that, :).
[2] Type of users:
1) Spatial single-click
	1-1) Spatial single-click subset that use close-behind.
2) Spatial double-click
3) Browser single-click
4) Browser double-click