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Bug 411627

Summary:	[usability] It is not obvious how to unselect a file/folder in the nav
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Gabriel Luong <gabriel.luong>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Gabriel Luong <gabriel.luong>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	libingw, simon_kaegi
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Gabriel Luong

2013-06-25 13:50:44 EDT

In the navigator if you were at the root, and have a folder selected, the only way to unselect the folder is to do ctrl + click. This would hinder people from creating new 'projects' if they did not know of the shortcut. This would also affect users with touch devices.

Some proposals:
1) The selection should be removed if clicked outside of any item in the explorer-tree div.
2) Toggle selection - clicking on the selected item unselects it

Comment 1 libing wang

2013-06-25 14:12:22 EDT

(In reply to comment #0)
> In the navigator if you were at the root, and have a folder selected, the
> only way to unselect the folder is to do ctrl + click. This would hinder
> people from creating new 'projects' if they did not know of the shortcut.
> This would also affect users with touch devices.
> 
> Some proposals:
> 1) The selection should be removed if clicked outside of any item in the
> explorer-tree div.

Deselecting the current selection/selections is OK. But remember there is a current "cursor" behind the selection. You can try the same logic in windows explorer.

> 2) Toggle selection - clicking on the selected item unselects it

We already did this for iPad but other than that I think we should keep the current behavior.

Comment 2 libing wang

2013-06-25 14:23:48 EDT

There are some sensitive parts in the selection policy.
Here is a typical use case for "keyboard only" navigation and selection, using separation of current "cursor" and current selection.
Assume you have 5 folders/rows and you want to select the first, third and fifth folders by arrow, CTRL, and space keys.
1.The default selection is on the first row.
2.CTRL+DOWN key twice to move the cursor to the third row while current selection is not changed.
3.Space key to select the third row while the first row remains selected.
4.CTRL+DOWN key twice to move the cursor to the fifth row while current selection is not changed.
5.Space key to select the fifth row while the first and third rows remain selected.
6.Now the 3 rows are selected.

Comment 3 John Arthorne

2015-05-05 16:21:14 EDT

Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:


https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html