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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: standardizing modes of text selection
From:       Leo Savernik <l.savernik () aon ! at>
Date:       2004-03-20 13:12:10
Message-ID: 200403201413.52022.l.savernik () aon ! at
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Am Samstag 20 März 2004 06:36 schrieb Jamethiel Knorth:
> 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.

Very concise, well done summary.
>
> 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)

Let's make an explicit distinction here: Mouse selection *will* expand to the 
beginning *and* end of the word/line when issued, but keyboard selection will 
*not*.

>
> 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.

Good point.
>
> As to who are relevant parties, I don't know. KDE-Policies?
> FreeDesktop.org? OpenUsability.org?

fdo doesn't seem to be the right place for such submissions. I also think this 
is no usability issue, but a style issue. I consider a place like
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/basics/
to be most appropriate.
>
[...]

mfg
	Leo
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