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

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

Maciej, or anybody using a Mac (maybe pre-Mac OS X), an answer to this could
help me take this further:

> 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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