Multiple entry selection

[colelawrence]

Selecting multiple entries at a time and then having functions to perform on all entries would be quite useful.

In GMail, you can tap the sender's photo on each entry to highlight it, so I figure that each of our extension svgs can double as "checkboxes".

[silverwind]

Yeah, that's a feature ownCloud has too, and I quite like it. It shows a checkbox on hover over the icon.

[silverwind]

For easy multi-selection we should make sure to add Shift + Click on a checkbox to select all elements between the last clicked checkbox and the current one.

[colelawrence]

Google Drive uses a border-left to describe which entry the cursor is selected on and arrow keys up/down to move cursor, this combined with the spacebar for check-boxing is an approach worth consideration.

[silverwind]

Looking good. I'll make sure to add something like that.

[silverwind]

I came to like this style of checkboxes, with the flipping effect and all that :) :

[colelawrence]

I agree with this design. If we had more padding, I don't think we would
even need to have a button to start selections. We could implement it the
same way GMail does.

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I came to like this style of chechboxes:

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[silverwind]

Reminds me I still have to check out the UX in the Gmail Web app, as I never use it (IMAP only).

Keyboard navigation is a must, of course. I'll have to think about something on how to code the shortcuts flexible, as arrow keys/spacebar are mapped differently in image fullscreen mode, for example.

[silverwind]

@zombiehippie Not sure if you checked out Google Drive recently, but I like they way they mimic a file selection rectangle from Windows.

[colelawrence]

Selection like this would be specific to desktop I assume.

[silverwind]

I could see it working on mobile too, but it'd probably hard to get right with the touch events.

I just checked out GDrive on my phone and was pretty disappointed that they don't even offer an HTML5 interface, and their native App doesn't have the notion of selection. I'd have expected better from Google.

[amenolo]

Hi silverwind,
any news about implementing this feature? thanks!

[silverwind]

Not forgotten, just haven't found time to do it yet.

[mhdev90]

+1