[Kst] Extended selection mode for editmultiplewidget

Adam Treat treat at kde.org
Mon Oct 9 17:10:56 CEST 2006


Qt offers both Multi and Extended mode for various widgets.  The default is 
single selection mode.

Adam

On Monday 09 October 2006 7:44 am, Barth Netterfield wrote:
> 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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