[kde-guidelines] List view

[Heiko Tietze]

Am Donnerstag, 6. Juni 2013, 17:10:33 schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer:
> 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.
What if users want to select all items (from a huge list) starting with the 
letter A. Or all files that have been created today. If no special filter is 
provided one can sort by the feature (name or time), browse to the first item, 
left click it, browse to the last and shift-click it to have all selected at 
once. 

What's about this:
* Multiple selection should be done rather with check boxes when selection is 
complex, does not depend on sorting, or the process of selection takes some 
time. 

or simply only the latter

* Multiple selection should be done rather with check boxes when the process 
of selection takes some time. 
* Multiple selections makes sense for simple selections of many items.