Bug 140948

Summary:	Multiple selections with checkboxes
Product:	[Applications] kfile	Reporter:	Dawid Ciezarkiewicz <dawid.ciezarkiewicz>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Dawid Ciezarkiewicz 2007-01-31 13:36:40 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    I Don't Know

This is probably wish for another widget in kdelibs, not just wish for kmail.

Some time ago I was talking with my friends about usability. My friend told us about his sister problems with adding multiple attachments.

She often need to add multiple attachments (like most of us). And she always adds them one by one. Her brother have showed her many times how to select many files using Ctrl, but what we all admited - it's quite hard for typical user to do that. So she still adds them one by one.

We thought about solution and using list of files in current dir with checkboxes at the left side would be very intuitive and efficient. Everywhere in KDE where multiple files are expected to be selected such widget could be used instead of forcing user to know about magic-ctrl-click.

This is just a raw idea, but I thought it's worth reporting.

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2011-08-10 15:11:00 UTC

This would be resolved when we used Dolphin item views in the file dialog.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-04-13 17:03:39 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 185793 ***