2010/5/23 Kristoffer Lundén <[email protected]> > > 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 > > Maybe I should also mention that I raised the idea on the Nautilus mailing list back then, and while there was no big discussion, the answer was that it was a nice idea, but there was no developer time available to develop it. So it would probably be accepted upstream if implemented.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04211.html / Kristoffer
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