On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:36 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > On 7 Feb, 2006, at 5:10 AM, karderio wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 21:42 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > >> > >> If it is possible what you suggest, then that would make it easier to > >> "rubberband"-select items in the list view, like you can in the icon > >> view. Dragging the mouse over columns other than icon/filename would > >> not affect the item under the mouse cursor directly, but rather > >> affect the selection. > > > > "Rubberbanding" in the list view would be handy, how about activating > > "rubberbanding" if the shift key is held down (presuming that key is > > not in use) ? > > ... > > As you can see by trying it, Shift is already used for contiguous > selection, Ctrl is used for non-contiguous selection, and Alt is > (unfortunately) used to move the window. But a modifier key wouldn't be > necessary if the behavior described above was implemented.
Just a me-too on how unfortunate the Alt modifier thing for window moving is. I know of at least one major piece of third-party software that uses Alt as a modifier for certain mouse operations, and it's been doing so since long before Gnome stole it for window movement. I always switch it to Super, but I never use it. There doesn't seem to be a "just turn this off, please" check box. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
