From kde-usability Sat Mar 20 05:36:02 2004 From: "Jamethiel Knorth" Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 05:36:02 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: standardizing modes of text selection Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=107976097210070 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. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page – FREE download! http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability