GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 410497
Multiple selections with CTRL + Shift
Last modified: 2009-09-29 12:36:24 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
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.
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).
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.
@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.
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.
commited.