2010/5/21 Mark Shuttleworth <[email protected]> > > 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. > > I don't see a need for the checkboxes at all. And I definitely don't > like the "de-select" button, which appears to be arbitrarily placed. > > The problem with all of those is that they are hard, and complicated. Lassoing is somewhat fine for files next to each other, but not for a distributed selection. For everything else, it becomes a two-hand operation and I need to keep track of CTRL and SHIFT properly or I mess it up.
As a single-clicker since quite a few years, this feature was absolutely fantastic the short while I had to use Vista at a previous work - it's really straightforward and easy to use, not to mention easy to understand. I would recommend everyone that has the option to try it out (don't know if it's in Win 7 as well) before dismissing it. It works really well in both icon and list view, and as a bonus, it works equally well in double click mode if that would stay the default. / Kristoffer
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