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When I alt+click something, or use the new hover affordance, and then select an item, the other items disappear after a delay. This means that I am always trying to select them just as they are disappearing, which makes alt+click almost unusable. I think either the delay should be 0, or it should be something like 5 seconds, or 1 second after the last time I clicked on something, so that I have time to actually select the things I want before they disappear. I think having the delay be 0 is the worst solution, but still better than the current behaviour.
So, a delay of 0 wouldn't work because it would be impossible to double click a filtered item, but I still think it should be smarter about this. Similarly, when I alt+click and then don't select any item, the filtered children stay there forever and it's not obvious how to make them go away. I think the solution to both problems is the same: hide the filtered children only after the user has moved the mouse away from that area for a few seconds. It might also be worth considering having the + affordance turn into a - that can be used to hide the filtered children again, but that might encourage unnecessary clicking. But the current behaviour is frustrating and hard to understand.
I have noticed the same problem. Could we add a modifier like Alt+click to add items instantly :)?
I don't think I understand. Things are added to the context by clicking on them now, the problem is that you can only add one at a time unless you hold alt (I believe that when I opened this bug, holding alt did not work).
I guess I was suggesting the opposite from you: I would like for other items to disappear instantly when I click an item to add it to the context. My sense is that making the delay longer would be even more confusing and probably appear like a bug. You can add multiple items by Ctrl+clicking. Have you tried that?
Cool, Ctrl+click works. I don't think it used to. But I still think the current delay is bad. Note that removing things from your view when you weren't expecting it is a fundamental part of context. However, currently things get removed as soon as their interest is reduced, which means they can be removed just when you were about to click on them. It might be better to update views in response to interest changes only when the user is not interacting with them. Similarly, I think alt+click should be sticky: everything should remain visible until you leave the view or explicitly refilter by alt+clicking on the parent again (or clicking the - affordance that we have talked about having).
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