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Subject: Re: standardizing modes of text selection
From: Leo Savernik <l.savernik () aon ! at>
Date: 2004-04-01 15:11:52
Message-ID: 200404011711.54512.l.savernik () aon ! at
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Am Mittwoch 24 März 2004 07:19 schrieb Jamethiel Knorth:
> Did anyone ever put together a proposal about this and send it to whom it
> regards?
I am about to add the proposal to the KDE style guide, but before I'll do that
I'm posting it here for review.
mfg
Leo
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<font color="#aaaaaa"><b>Mouse</b></font><br>
<font size="+4"><b>Selection</b></font>
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</p>
<p>
Certain content areas represent their content in terms of textual
objects like plain text, formatted text, text with
embedded objects etc. Those areas should provide the following
modes of text selection.
</p>
<h2>Left Mouse Button</h2>
<table border=0 cellpadding=3 bgcolor="#dddddd">
<tr><td bgcolor="#aaaaaa"><b>Single Click (SC)</b></td><td \
bgcolor="#aaaaaa"><b>Action</b></td></tr> <tr><td>SC</td><td>All selections are \
unmarked.<br>
The caret is placed onto the click position if
applicable.
</td></tr>
<tr><td>SC + drag</td><td>Select from the pointer, extending \
selection by letters.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Shift + SC</td><td>Extend the end of the existing \
selection up to the pointer position.<sup><a \
href="#shiftnosel">1</a></sup></td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="#aaaaaa"><b>Double Click (DC)</b></td><td \
bgcolor="#aaaaaa"><b>Action</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>DC</td><td>Select the targeted word.<sup><a \
href="#worddef">2</a></sup><br>
Existing selections will be unmarked.</td></tr>
<tr><td>DC + drag</td><td>Select the targeted word and
continue to select by word as the pointer moves, selecting to the
beginning and end of any word the pointer moves onto.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Shift + DC</td><td>Extend the end of the existing \
selection up to the cursor position, then extending the beginning of the selection to \
the beginning of the first word covered by the selection, and the end of the \
selection to the end of the last word.<sup><a \
href="#shiftnosel">1</a></sup></td></tr>
<tr><td bgcolor="#aaaaaa"><b>Triple Click (TC)</b></td><td \
bgcolor="#aaaaaa"><b>Action</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>TC</td><td>Select the targeted row.<sup><a href="#rowdef">3</a> \
<a href="#resize">4</a></sup><br>
Existing selections will be unmarked.</td></tr>
<tr><td>TC + drag</td><td>Select the targeted row and
continue to select by row as the pointer moves, selecting to
(inclusively) any line the pointer is dragged over.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Shift + TC</td><td>Extend the end of the existing \
selection up to the cursor position, then extending the beginning of the selection to \
the beginning of the first row covered by the selection, and the end of the selection \
to the end of the last row.<sup><a href="#shiftnosel">1</a></sup></td></tr> </table>
<dl compact>
<dt><sup><a name="shiftnosel">1</a></sup></dt>
<dd>Using the shift modifier when no selection is existing
behaves as if it were not pressed in the first place.</dd>
<dt><sup><a name="worddef">2</a></sup></dt>
<dd> The definition of word is not consistent and may need to
be standardized elsewhere, but not here. Especially which
characters to consider as a word boundaries are not subject
to this style guide.</dd>
<dt><sup><a name="rowdef">3</a></sup></dt>
<dd>A row refers to a displayed row of text, not to the
underlying row up to the next line-break. This is not selection
by paragraph.</dd>
<dt><sup><a name="resize">4</a></sup></dt>
<dd>When selecting by row, the row size changes if the window
is resized. In this case, keep the current text selected, even
though it may no longer be a whole row. If the selection by row
is further expanded by the user in a row-by-row manner, expand
the selection to encompass every row it is a part of.</dd>
</dl>
<h2>Right Mouse Button</h2>
<p>The RMB is not intended to be used for text selection.</p>
<h2>Applicability</h2>
<p>Application types which this style guide is applicable to are
text editors, word processors, visual user agents (web
browsers), and any other application type that features
displaying textual content.
</p>
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