RE: [Usability] Mac-Finder-like keyboard-navigation: Ctrl="and cl ose the current one"

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Maciej Stachowiak [mailto:mjs noisehavoc org] 
> On the Mac, it also happens that this modifier ("option") is 
> the standard "alternate action" modifier, much as "shift" is 
> in GNOME.

So, on the Mac, 2 option clicks will select a range of items, just as
shift-click does in Nautilus?

> It's true that, since the alternate-action modifier 
> not "shift" on the Mac, there's no risk of colliding with 
> shift-click selection extension.
> 
> However, it's also the case that shift-double-click leaves 
> the selection as-is and opens the currently selected set of 
> items. And to me, this makes more sense than changing the 
> selection (or at least is not clearly worse). I should add 
> that, specifically, the first shift-click of 
> shift-double-click doesn't wait to deselect, it deselects the 
> item right away and then reselects it on the second click.

Does it work if you shift-double-click in the middle of several selected
items? To do that, I think it would need to remember what was selected
before the selection change, and it would need to know that the second click
of the double-click means "reselect what was selected before, not what I
just selected with that click".

> So I think shift could work as the "and close the other one" 
> modifier if you made this change to shift-double-click behavior.

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