[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 7526] Icon view Shift+drag should add to selection, like detailed view does

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7526

Andre Miranda <andreldm at xfce.org> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Andre Miranda <andreldm at xfce.org> ---
Shift+drag in detailed view behaves as shift click, selecting all files in that
direction and deselecting all "before" the first selected file. As far as I
know, that's expected from listing widgets, if it makes sense to be behave
differently I think that should be specific to Thunar and not exo.

For all views, in my quick test, Thunar 1.6.x and master have the same
behavior, ctrl+drag inverts but also adds to the selection.

All in all, I think the requested feature is already covered by ctrl+drag, but
I don't mind having a duplicate sans inverting as shift+drag.

(In reply to akb825 from comment #3)
> I'm fairly certain that shift+drag also adds to the selection for macOS.
> Since both main commercial OSs have that behavior, and most users are likely
> familiar with at least one of them, that is what I would expect.

I understand but disagree with this statement, I used macOS for about one year
(2018) and Finder was the worst part of it. Thunar is much more versatile,
adding to selection is possible with ctrl+dragging. If it was the other way
around, i.e. Finder not having shift+drag, most people would think "Apple
probably has a good reason to make this way, I'll just get used to it" (I
already observed this pattern many times on Apple users).

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