I agree that tablets should be treated as a special case and we should not dictate how the normal desktop should work. I see the following possibilities on tablets: 1. If it supports multitouch you could click and hold on the first item then select the rest by clicking on them while holding the first (or any other selected item) 2. have a button (windicator?) where you could select what mode you are in, click to open, click to select.
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 08:04 +0300, Alex Lourie wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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