Re: [Usability] rubberbanding in gtktreeview

[Carlos Morgado <chbm gnome org>]

On 2003.11.12 08:23, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Carlos Morgado">
>
> > Look at the message list on your Evolution. You loose. Game over.
>
> Please keep discussions on usability list polite, you've been fairly
> venomous throughout this thread. Explaining yourself is a far better
> strategy than flaming the other person willy-nilly.

In my opinion it's fairly obvious the purposed idea simply doesn't work for  
complex tree like a mailbox index. It might work for simplistic trees like  
the example the author used but it breaks apart for a number of applications.

Also, the purposed behaviour is nice for a class of applications where the  
most common is action is multiple selections but is a nuissance for  
applications where drag'n'drop of single items is the norm. Building it into  
the widget is wrong.

Also, the author doesn't explain how the mechanism would work visually for  
compact trees with little free space. I claim it doesn't. He then goes on to  
use keybindings he previously claimed are to complex for normal users.

The new scheme would also break expected behaviours of existing applications  
and disrupt usage paterns for users.

I finally claim the Box concept doesn't make sense for unidimentional  
objects. Drawing a rectangle around a line segment isn't a familiar concept  
anywhere.


Clear enough ?

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