<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:39, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote:<br> > Hi,<br> ><br> > often have heard from the field about the need to select multiple<br> > entries and delete them. Should we add a checkbox to every entry in<br> > the list, or allow the user to select with shift-click and ctrl-click?<br> > Or anything else?<br> <br> </div>This has been already discussed here, more comments welcome:<br> <br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-November/020630.html" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-November/020630.html</a></blockquote><div> </div></div><div>Mmm, tough call.</div> <div><br></div><div>While I agree with Gary that having individual selection boxes next to each Journal entry would clutter the UI a bit I don't necessarily think that it's really a feature that's only going to be used by advanced users. The main problems I see with using a keyboard shortcut is that</div> <div><br></div><div>(a) generally speaking all of Sugar's features are available via graphic UI elements and keyboard shortcuts aren't really used too much at the moment and</div><div>(b) it's hard to "discover" a functionality that requires a fairly sophisticated combination of simultanous keyboard and touchpad input</div> <div><br></div><div>So personally I tend to think that selection boxes are a better way to go.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Christoph</div><br>-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com">www.olpcnews.com</a><br> e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>