On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 17:04 +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote: > Benedikt Meurer wrote: > >>I was testing the new single click feature and was wondering if it could > >>be possible to implement a feature where files get selected by just > >>hovering the mouse pointer on them (e.g. ~500msecs). This is how single > >>click works atleast in Windows. Now user has to keep Ctrl or Shift > >>pressed when selecting even a single file. > > > > > > See the attached patch for ExoIconView, that should do the trick for the > > icon view. For the details view, GtkTreeView offers a hover-selection > > setting, but that doesn't work for multi-selection mode and it'll also > > select the row right away without any timeout. I could add an > > ExoTreeView class, which extends GtkTreeView with the required single > > click features.
Patch works like a charm in icon mode > Hm, this makes the icon view somewhat tricky to use in single click > mode. It's too easy to accidently select a file now. > > Benedikt If you're referring to functionality from the patch, I don't see the harm in accidental selection of a file (does not happen that easily anyway IMHO). That's how it works in all single click apps I've seen, people are used to it. -Mikko _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
