On Friday 08 October 2010 16:06:32 Peter Van Lone wrote:
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Sven Burmeister
wrote: What's the use case for focusing but not selecting or focusing but not performing some action from the context menu on the file?
I believe that focusing IS selecting - short of having to subsequently choose an action. We are used to using the mouse to point at (and by clicking) select an object so that we can either get information about it or perform an action against it or continue selecting other things.
If focusing is selecting, click on the "+" and you slected and focused the file. Actions are in the context-menu, use the right mouse button and they are all there.
If you disable the tool meant to be used for selecting files, i.e. placing the focus on a file but not opening it, it seems obvious that you cannot use that feature.
the "tool meant to be used for selecting files" is not accepted/understood or liked much by people.
Is it? I did not see any complains on this list or the kde one over the last few weeks/months.
It seems an awkward and unlikely extra bit when we can simply left-click on the thing to select it, and then use ctrl or shift to extend the selection to other objects.
Only if you explain every new computer user that he has to use CTRL and SHIFT for that. Or you add a hint to the GUI and thus make it easy to discover which is what the appearing "+" is. So I claim using CTRL and SHIFT for selecting files is rather less straight- fowrward because you cannot know about it without learning it or reading about it since there are no hints in the GUI. Why CTRL and not ALT? Why SHIFT for selecting one way and CTRL the other, why not the other way around? Why is a key that is used to switch to uppercase used for selecting multiple files, where is the obvious link between the two features to map them to the same key? Where is the logic? Or was it not rather something set-up artificially and learnt rather than a good design usability-wise?
Instead the devs chose the new selection tool which is a lot easier to understand for new users which do not know about holding CTRL in order to select multiple files.
says who?
Common sense? How do you know about CTRL being linked to slecting multiple files? Did you guess? Was it obvious? Was it a hint the GUI gave you? You learnt it. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org