On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Frederik Nnaji <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello SABDFL ;) > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:28, Mark Shuttleworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We already have mechanisms for multiple selection, with dragging to > > lasso a set of icons, ctrl-click to select an arbitrary set, and > > shift-click to continue a selection along a list. > > Of course we have keyboard shortcuts for all sorts of operations, but > can we also pull off these operations when we're in a tablet or > touchpad mode? > > Maybe think of another metaphor? I don't believe that tablet usability issues should dictate what happens on the desktop where we do have a keyboard and a mouse. If you all you want is recreate a desktop on the tablet device, look what happened to all Windows-based devices. That's why today's tablets are not copying desktop per se, they use different use model. That said, I'd like to have another reasons for doing this, as the "hard to do on a tablet" doesn't quite convinces me. > > I don't see a need for the checkboxes at all. > > This i can understand, since checkboxes are tiny and perhaps easy to > miss, using a touchpad.. I'd suggest make their <area> a reasonably > fault tolerant. > And once again, you argue with the tablet. Let's step a bit back to the desktop for a moment. Do you sincerely believe that checkboxes are more convenient and easy than the "double-click" paradigm? I suspect that hitting the checkbox would be no easier than double-click to open. In fact, I believe that most of the new age tablets in existence today don't have a file/file manager metaphor at all (and some do only as the *additional* application). -- Alex Lourie
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