Re: [Usability] Should Shift+Ctrl+Click select a range or just the item clicked?

["Gabriel Burt" <gabriel burt gmail com>]

On 5/10/06, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
> I filed a bug about this years ago:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75484
>
> I'm not sure it's really a HIG issue; the toolkit should just make
> sure it works like that everywhere, unless we can think of any common
> exceptions.

I think it is a HIG issue since application developers often create
their own widgets that need behavior like this.  For example, F-Spot
has a custom IconView widget that is a subclass of Gtk.Layout, and it
uses the same shift/ctrl + key/click to select items.

F-Spot has received a bug by a user who came from Windows and only
knew about Ctrl+Shift+Click to select ranges (eg he didn't know you
could just Shift+Click).

Thanks,

Gabriel