[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Journal: extend click selection in a range via shift key press

[Walter Bender]

Tony, I agree that losing focus is an issue, but I am not sure it is
related to the issue being raised by Rahul in his proposed change.

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 6:52 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:

> The original goal of the Sugar HIG was to move away from the desktop model
> and to make most functions available by clicking on icons. The Journal
> now requires nearly every action to be made by selection from a menu which
> is longer than most 'file' menus. First, a click on the icon should resume
> the activity whose icon is shown without any need to deal with a palette.
> Second, a palette should be toggled by a right-click as in a context menu.
> It should stay open until either the cursor is clicked off the menu or an
> option is clicked. Currently a palette disappears if you move the cursor
> away for a microsecond making moving from the icon to the cursor require
> very steady movement - something that is diificul on an XO, especially for
> a young child.
>
> Tony
>
>
> On Thursday, 01 March, 2018 09:53 AM, Rahul Bothra wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> Current feature in journal selection(of checkboxes)
>  - 'click' toggles the checkbox
>  - 'ctrl + click' produces no change
>  - 'shift+click` produces no change
>
> Proposed feature:
>  - 'click' toggles the checkbox
>  - 'ctrl + click` toggles the checkbox
>  - 'shift + click` will select the entire range of checkboxes between
> currently clicked checkbox and the previous checkbox clicked
>
> This proposed feature is identical to list of mails in gmail.
> For reference: https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/786
>
> This could be an improvement to the Multple selection feature
> Kindly give your opinion
>
>
> Thanking you
>
> Rahul Bothra
> @Pro-Panda
>
>
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