[kde-guidelines] List view

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On Thursday 06 June 2013 17:10:33 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> 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.

Interestingly, most webmail (gmail, roundcube, squirrel, horde...) have 
checkboxes to select multiple emails.

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