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[Kristoffer Lundén <kristoffer.lunden@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/5/23 Kristoffer Lundén <kristoffer.lunden@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> 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
>
>
Maybe I should also mention that I raised the idea on the Nautilus mailing
list back then, and while there was no big discussion, the answer was that
it was a nice idea, but there was no developer time available to develop it.
So it would probably be accepted upstream if implemented.

http://www.mail-archive.com/nautilus-list@xxxxxxxxx/msg04211.html

/ Kristoffer