GSoC 2016 Project Idea Usability Suggestions

[Heiko Tietze]

On Saturday 26 December 2015 08:59:15 Johan Ouwerkerk wrote:
> How does this idea improve on hold Ctrl, then click files? I.e.
> can/does it apply to multiple disjoint folder trees at the same time?

I'd recommend to keep the UI clean. It has the side-effect of supporting 
multiselection but the first use case is to generate a temporary list of items.

However your reply reminds me on the discussion we had some time ago in the 
context of the HIG about listviews (dig the web to find the old thread). The 
idea was to balance the simplicity of multiselection in classic list views 
with the efficience of checkboxes by offering those when multiple items have 
been selected, maybe optionally. In other words you get the normal listview 
and everything looks familiar. But when you hold down the ctrl or shift key 
the items offer you check boxes that make any selection sticky. 
This enhanchment should be done on a core level, not Dolphin specific. The idea 
was stalled at that time because of the transition to Qt5. Maybe it's the 
right time now...

 On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Arnav Dhamija <arnav.dhamija at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Trays Panel Extension for the Dolphin File Manager for improving GUI file
> > selection operations

Great idea. After having some kind of extra panel in mind it now sounds like 
another history layer, manually controlled. Users can chose whether to show a 
list of the today's files or the manually selected. The good thing is that two 
ideas makes it easy to run a survey with community. Question in this first 
stage should be about scope, and after that how the interaction is done. 

Feel free to ask for help. Drawing mockups and running a survey is much fun.

Cheers,
Heiko