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List:       kde-usability
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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