Public bug reported:
It should be possible to select files by drawing a lasso around them,
instead of holding down Ctrl while drawing a bunch of rectangles. Often
you want to select a block of icons, but not a few in either corner. So
this requires you to drag 3 or 4 rectangles when it would be easier to
just outline the ones you want. Also would be easier to grasp for the
less technically-inclined.
The line that you draw should be simplified as you draw it, on the order
of the size of the icons, so as not to be all messy, and it should be
possible to "backtrack". If you draw backwards within a certain width
of the line you already drew, it will erase it, so as to de-select
something you accidentally went around.
** Affects: nautilus
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #470513
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470513
** Also affects: nautilus via
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470513
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Should be able to select files with lasso instead of rectangle
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174082
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