[kde-guidelines] List view

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 06.06.2013 16:08, Heiko Tietze wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 6. Juni 2013, 10:51:15 schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer:
>> On 06.06.2013 00:10, Heiko Tietze wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, 5. Juni 2013, 23:07:29 schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer:
>>>> For me, list boxes are a relic of the past that simply should go away.
>>>
>>> Objection! Any file manager has a list view either with simple view, or
>>> detailled, or preview (as far as I know that are the terms).
>>
>> Yes, and because of the discoverability and accessibility problems,
>> Dolphin (or maybe the kdelibs team, not sure) for example created the
>> "click green plus sign to select" feature. And another way to
>> multi-select (though only adjacent files) is to drag a frame with the mouse.
>> Unless the Qt list widget has these features, it is far less usable than
>> file managers.
>
> Another example is the list of emails in kmail.

True. However, selecting multiple mails at once there is a nicety, not a 
necessity. Users who do not want to or cannot use multi-select via 
keyboard can do everything one mail at a time.
So yes, list boxes can be used if users never _have to_ select mutliple 
elements at a time.