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Bug 699911 - Selection pattern design updates
Selection pattern design updates
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-boxes
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.13.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: --
Assigned To: GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
GNOME Boxes maintainer(s)
Depends on: 706818
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-05-08 09:18 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2018-01-11 10:05 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.13/3.14



Description Allan Day 2013-05-08 09:18:40 UTC
There's been a round of changes to the selection pattern; these are intended to
overcome a bunch of issues that we've encountered with the existing design.

Details of the updated design can be found here:

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/SelectionPattern
Comment 1 Zeeshan Ali 2014-02-23 18:45:54 UTC
I think this is mostly done except for:

* Selection mode can be activated by:
 * Drag to select an area (pointer only - not touch), aka rubberband selection

(It actually works but you gotta press ctrl or shift with it but I'm guessing thats not good enough).

* Once in selection mode, content can be selected by:
 * Ctrl+A - select all.
 * Ctrl+Shift+A - select none.
Comment 2 Lasse Schuirmann 2014-07-16 07:52:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> I think this is mostly done except for:
> 
> * Selection mode can be activated by:
>  * Drag to select an area (pointer only - not touch), aka rubberband selection
> 
> (It actually works but you gotta press ctrl or shift with it but I'm guessing
> thats not good enough).

Actually in my system the ctrl+shift+drag does rather select a range then an area and only toggles the selection state for the items. This isn't what we want, is it?

> (...)

In addition the following point from https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/SelectionPattern seems not anymore working:

> The toolbar header updates to reflect the number of selected items and to provide a select all/none menu; when no items are selected, it gives a hint such as "Click on items to select them".

Where's this gone? Didn't we had this? Tried it out on master right now.


Bumping up version since all points are still valid.
Comment 3 Zeeshan Ali 2014-07-16 11:39:14 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > I think this is mostly done except for:
> > 
> > * Selection mode can be activated by:
> >  * Drag to select an area (pointer only - not touch), aka rubberband selection
> > 
> > (It actually works but you gotta press ctrl or shift with it but I'm guessing
> > thats not good enough).
> 
> Actually in my system the ctrl+shift+drag does rather select a range then an
> area and only toggles the selection state for the items. This isn't what we
> want, is it?

Yes, we wanted selection through rubber banding.

> > (...)
> 
> In addition the following point from
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/SelectionPattern seems not anymore working:
> 
> > The toolbar header updates to reflect the number of selected items and to provide a select all/none menu; when no items are selected, it gives a hint such as "Click on items to select them".
> 
> Where's this gone? Didn't we had this? Tried it out on master right now.

Thats a regression.
Comment 4 Zeeshan Ali 2014-10-20 17:40:53 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> 
> In addition the following point from
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/SelectionPattern seems not anymore working:
> 
> > The toolbar header updates to reflect the number of selected items and to provide a select all/none menu; when no items are selected, it gives a hint such as "Click on items to select them".
> 
> Where's this gone? Didn't we had this? Tried it out on master right now.

This was fixed in 3.14.
 
> Bumping up version since all points are still valid.

Which ones exactly?
Comment 5 Zeeshan Ali 2015-02-23 19:15:26 UTC
Seems neither this:

"* Selection mode can be activated by:
 * Drag to select an area (pointer only - not touch), aka rubberband selection

(It actually works but you gotta press ctrl or shift with it but I'm guessing thats not good enough)."

nor

"* Once in selection mode, content can be selected by:
 * Ctrl+A - select all.
 * Ctrl+Shift+A - select none."

work anymore. So this is still valid.
Comment 6 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-11 10:05:45 UTC
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