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Subject: Re: standardizing modes of text selection
From: "Jamethiel Knorth" <jamethknorth () hotmail ! com>
Date: 2004-03-20 5:36:02
Message-ID: BAY7-F6gxLDp7mvjkO2000038d3 () hotmail ! com
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Okay, I know not everything was agreed on here, but do we all at least agree
that the standard for selection in KDE should be:
Single-Click - No selection
Single-Click & Drag - Select from cursor, by letter
Double-Click - Select word
Double Click & Drag - Select word and select by word, selecting to the
beginning and end of any word the cursor moves onto.
Triple -Click - Select row
Triple-Click & Drag - Select row and select by row, selecting to
(inclusively) any line the cursor is dragged over.
Reversing Cursor Dragging - Select in the same manner as before, changing
the end point but never the start-point of the selection (specifically, not
like the keyboard text-selection in apple where it expands in both
directions)
If we are in agreement, why doesn't whoever originally suggested this (was
that you Leo?) write it up all pretty-like (with a notice that selection
modes for URLs is not yet defined) and send it off to the relevant parties.
If we could get this to be the official KDE standard, that'd be great.
As to who are relevant parties, I don't know. KDE-Policies? FreeDesktop.org?
OpenUsability.org?
PS. I was noting that the by-paragraph selection in text-boxes in Safari is
the anomaly, and I consider it to be in error. It's quite bothersome,
really.
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