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[Raymond Barbour <xraya4t@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that tablets should be treated as a special case and we should
not dictate how the normal desktop should work. I see the following
possibilities on tablets:
1. If it supports multitouch you could click and hold on the first item
then select the rest by clicking on them while holding the first (or any
other selected item)
2. have a button (windicator?) where you could select what mode you are
in, click to open, click to select.

On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 08:04 +0300, Alex Lourie wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Frederik Nnaji
> <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>         Hello SABDFL ;)
>         
>         
>         On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:28, Mark Shuttleworth
>         <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         
>         > We already have mechanisms for multiple selection, with
>         dragging to
>         > lasso a set of icons, ctrl-click to select an arbitrary set,
>         and
>         > shift-click to continue a selection along a list.
>         
>         
>         
>         Of course we have keyboard shortcuts for all sorts of
>         operations, but
>         can we also pull off  these operations when we're in a tablet
>         or
>         touchpad mode?
>         
>         
>         
> 
> 
> Maybe think of another metaphor? I don't believe that tablet usability
> issues should dictate
> what happens on the desktop where we do have a keyboard and a mouse.
> If you all you want is
> recreate a desktop on the tablet device, look what happened to all
> Windows-based devices. That's why
> today's tablets are not copying desktop per se, they use different use
> model.
> 
> 
> That said, I'd like to have another reasons for doing this, as the
> "hard to do on a tablet" doesn't quite convinces me.
>  
>         > I don't see a need for the checkboxes at all.
>         
>         
>         
>         This i can understand, since checkboxes are tiny and perhaps
>         easy to
>         miss, using a touchpad.. I'd suggest make their <area> a
>         reasonably
>         fault tolerant.
> 
> 
> 
> And once again, you argue with the tablet. Let's step a bit back to
> the desktop for a moment. Do you sincerely believe
> 
> that checkboxes are more convenient and easy than the "double-click"
> paradigm? I suspect that hitting the checkbox would
> be no easier than double-click to open.
> 
> 
> 
> In fact, I believe that most of the new age tablets in existence today
> don't have a file/file manager metaphor at all (and some do only as
> the
> *additional* application).
> 
> -- 
> Alex Lourie
> 
> 
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