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Bug 410497 - Multiple selections with CTRL + Shift
Multiple selections with CTRL + Shift
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Views: List View
0.x.x [obsolete]
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on: 551375
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-02-21 19:16 UTC by Zurd
Modified: 2009-09-29 12:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Attachments
Adds multiselect capability to list view (1.50 KB, patch)
2009-09-27 19:27 UTC, Marcus Carlson
none Details | Review

Description Zurd 2007-02-21 19:16:44 UTC
The feature I'd like is to get 2 multiple selections with CTRL + Shift.
Let's say we have a list of items from 1 to 10 in a list. Select the items
1 to 3 by, first, clicking on 1, then holding Shift and clicking on 3.
Then, I also want items 4 to 7 selected, so I hold CTRL to not unselect
items 1 to 3 and I click on item 4, I then hold CTRL and Shift and click on
item 7. Doing this, I think Nautilus should have selected items 1 to 3
and items 4 to 7, but unfortunately, that is not the case. Only items 1 to
3 and item 4 and 7 will be selected.

This selection behavior is what I'm use to, we can find it in Windows Explorer or even Konqueror but not with GTK+.

Thanks
Comment 1 Scott 2008-08-09 19:59:01 UTC
Just thought I'd post to confirm this. I'd actually rate this as a bug rather than enhancement; I'm sure it is intended for Ctrl-Shift-click to work as every other file manager.
Comment 2 Sam Stenvall 2008-09-07 21:27:22 UTC
I can confirm this. I agree with Scott that it should be seen as a bug 'cause it's very annoying when you're used to it. This was one of the first things I noticed about GNOME when I switched from Kubuntu to Ubuntu, and all my friends who have never used Ubuntu notice this as soon as they wanna burn a CD on my computer (where this method of selecting files is quite common 'cause you don't want the album covers and the playlist file etc.)

I hope some developer notices this and atleast confirms this as a bug (although technically it's just an enhancement).
Comment 3 Christian Neumair 2008-09-08 13:44:49 UTC
I fixed it for icon view in trunk:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/nautilus?view=revision&revision=14599

For list view, it is a bit trickier, and I currently don't have time for working out the details: Ideally, GtkTreeView should support this inherently, or GtkTreeSelection should expose the GTK_TREE_SELECT_MODE_EXTEND selection mode which is used for range selection. I'll file a bug report against GTK+.

Reassigning to list view.
Comment 4 Sam Stenvall 2008-09-08 14:12:39 UTC
@Christian Neumair:

Thanks for noticing this bug and fixing it in icon view. Sadly I always use list view so the bug is still there for me, I hope it will be fixed for list view as well in the not-so-distant future. Thanks for filing the bug report.
Comment 5 Marcus Carlson 2009-09-27 19:27:45 UTC
Created attachment 144129 [details] [review]
Adds multiselect capability to list view

Christian, has anything happened with the bug you filed against gtk? Otherwise I've got a patch right here that seems to work quite well.
Comment 6 Alexander Larsson 2009-09-29 12:36:24 UTC
commited.