File selection
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File selection
I'd prefer if I could make a crossing selection window (using mouse) from ANY column in x2. Currently, a crossing window can only be made starting from blank space in the "Name" column. This seems counterproductive to me. Situations where I have to use keyboard or resize columns to make a selection are common. Dragging a file is always possible anyway, so I don't see why crossing selections shouldn't be always possible as well.
rulle wrote:Am I missing out on something
It depends on what you are trying to do & what habits you have developed for doing it. (i.e. user preference)
If you are selecting files based on other than name (modified date, for example), you will have detail view ON with extra columns. Then it is more convenient (faster with less errors) to click in the column of interest than to to click carefully on the name(s), making sure you are in the intended row each time.
& for me I seldom find files of interest to be adjacent, so ease of lassoing is no loss. + I prefer keyboard technique of shift+downarrow from first item to achieve the same selection result when files of interest happen to be adjacent. (again: user habit/preference)
[edit/add:] PS - did I mention that I use horizontal style dual pane tiling & arrange pane width so I (almost) always have a small slice of white space to the right of the last column? Useful as an easy-to-hit target for things like beginning a "lasso", or dropping a selection into the folder without it going un-intendedly into the subfolder or archive on the drop-line. [/edit]
The title bar of a pane is also a drop target. Then you're sure you'll never missfgagnon wrote:[...] so I (almost) always have a small slice of white space to the right of the last column? Useful as an easy-to-hit target for things like beginning a "lasso", or dropping a selection into the folder without it going un-intendedly into the subfolder or archive on the drop-line.
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You may think that was a typo. Well here is your Guide to Mothingrulle wrote:Seems like mothing but a nuisance to me
That is something I'll easily trade for an always working lasso selection. There isn't much I can't do with Ctrl+Left mouse button when selecting files.fgagnon wrote:Then it is more convenient (faster with less errors) to click in the column of interest than to to click carefully on the name(s), making sure you are in the intended row each time.