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Subject:    Re: Strange selection highlighting system in Konqueror
From:       Leo Savernik <l.savernik () aon ! at>
Date:       2004-11-25 21:28:05
Message-ID: 200411252228.06234.l.savernik () aon ! at
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Am Donnerstag, 25. November 2004 19:55 schrieb James Ots:
> On Thursday 25 November 2004 11:36, Leo Savernik wrote:
> > Question: How does the usual mouse-clicking-only computer-illiterate user
> > ever manage to put the focus *outside* of the selection? For these kinds
> > of users, selection == focus always holds true.
>
> Draw a marquee around items that the cursor isn't on.

Aiiiyyyee! Indeed. This could even happen to a novice. What does windows do in 
this case?
>
> > Those who are smart enough to move the focus out of the selection are
> > also smart enough to find out about the enter/action behaviour, aren't
> > they?
>
> I've been using computers for twenty years and I still find it confusing. I
> guess I must be dumb ;-)

No, you disproved my point by simple falsification. So you're actually 
smart ;-) (and thus, by definition, shouldn't have any problem with the 
current behaviour ;-) )

mfg
 Leo

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