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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] BIG usability improvement for Konqy's listviews
From:       Michael Brade <Michael.Brade () informatik ! uni-muenchen ! de>
Date:       2001-07-30 18:53:38
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On Monday 30 July 2001 19:34, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 30 July 2001 16:25, Michael Brade wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I know it's late but I wasn't able to finish this earlier. The attached
> > patch fixes the annoying behaviour of the listviews not to be able to
> > select more items by just dragging the mouse, this has bugged me since
> > the beginning of KDE 2. Now if you don't click directly on an item and
> > then drag your mouse a rubber is drawn, just like in the iconview. With
> > the control button more selections can be combined.
>
> Woohoo ! You rock !
> Excellent work.
:-) Thanks!

> I guess you'll even be able to close about 20 "bug reports" ;-)
Ohh, I didn't know this was a feature request... Seems it's time to subscribe 
to kfm-devel and read the bugs for Konqy ;-}

> > I'm not completely finished with the patch since it has a small issue:
> > scrolling down while selecting and then moving the rubber away from the
> > items not all items get deselected, only the visible ones. Not too hard
> > to fix (need to change the way I iterate over the items).
> >
> > I definitely want to see this code in KDE 2.2 since it can't really break
> > anyting, the listviews were limited and quite broken long enough. So if
> > nobody objects I'll commit this evening, so that Waldo has a chance to
> > object as well.
>
> I won't object, since you have apparently tested it quite well, and given
> how many people asked for this ;)
Hehe, I thought so as well, but only _now_ it's really tested ;-)

Thanks a lot for your trust and kind words!

Ciao,
  Michael

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