[Kst] Extended selection mode for editmultiplewidget

Barth Netterfield netterfield at astro.utoronto.ca
Mon Oct 9 13:44:25 CEST 2006


Does anyone know if there is there a standard in the rest of KDE?
I assume we should follow that.

cbn

On Monday 09 October 2006 06:35, Brisset, Nicolas wrote:
> >   It's for click selection vs add-to-selection.  With
> > Extended you have to hold CTRL to add items to a selection,
> > and shift to select contiguous regions.  With Multi you can
> > just click on items to toggle them on/off in the selection.
>
> Though I agree that the extra keystroke for small selections (2 or 3
> items) is not ideal, there are two reasons why I much prefer Extended:
> - in Multi mode, adding long lists is *very* tedious (1 click per item
> !)
> - users are so used to Extended from other applications/environments
> (including MS Windows) that anything else tends to confuse them
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