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[Kristoffer Lundén <kristoffer.lunden@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/5/21 Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> 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.
>
> I don't see a need for the checkboxes at all. And I definitely don't
> like the "de-select" button, which appears to be arbitrarily placed.
>
>
The problem with all of those is that they are hard, and complicated.
Lassoing is somewhat fine for files next to each other, but not for a
distributed selection. For everything else, it becomes a two-hand operation
and I need to keep track of CTRL and SHIFT properly or I mess it up.

As a single-clicker since quite a few years, this feature was absolutely
fantastic the short while I had to use Vista at a previous work - it's
really straightforward and easy to use, not to mention easy to understand. I
would recommend everyone that has the option to try it out (don't know if
it's in Win 7 as well) before dismissing it. It works really well in both
icon and list view, and as a bonus, it works equally well in double click
mode if that would stay the default.

/ Kristoffer