On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 16:00 +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote: > On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 15:43, Andrew Conkling wrote: > > > Well, what if I wanted to delete multiple threads in my Evolution > > folder? I'd select the first message of the first thread, use Shift to > > select all through the last, use Ctrl to select the first message of the > > next thread, and while holding down Ctrl use Shift to select the last > > message of the second thread. That seems like it should be standard > > behaviour to me at this point and most applications that I use that have > > lists in them reflect this feature. > > I believe that the behaviour you describe is standard on Windows. I have > no idea if it is standard on Mac OS. It is not standard in GNOME: you > can not select multiple groups as you describe in nautilus in "View as > list" mode or in evolution 1.4.6. > > I must admit that I was surprised that it doesn't work as you expected, > but it is entirely possible that there may be very good reasons for > that. I know that a lot of work was done for GNOME 2.0 to make it highly > accessible to the disabled, and a lot of work was done by the usability > team. It could well be that the behaviour you expected would cause some > problem either with accessibility or with usability. > > > Can it be added? > > I suspect that if it were to be added it would have to be added to GNOME > in general as opposed to just Evolution, as the Evolution developers are > trying very hard to make Evolution GNOME HIG-compliant so that it can be > included as part of the core desktop in GNOME 2.8.
I am thinking of a few programs--EasyTAG, Opera, ROX, X-CD-Roast--three of which utilise GTK--EasyTAG, X-CD-Roast, and ROX. X-CD-Roast even has a checkbox in their configuration to turn it on or off. If it were rejected and not merely overlooked, at least I would suggest making a checkbox in the settings. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
