Kde icon selection

Acid7711 · 2006-11-12 09:05:39

I've never had another distro do this in KDE besides Arch and it really annoys me. I've tried figuring it out, haven't had any luck.

Every other distro, when I hold down the control key and select icons on the desktop, if I keep them selected and keep the control key down, if I accidentally go over them again with the selection box a second time, they are de-selected.

Every other distro I've used KDE in will keep the currently selected ones selected and select others that aren't. How can I set this? (If what I'm asking makes any sense? )

Thanks in advance

Snarkout · 2006-11-12 21:39:42

I see the same behavior, but cannot honestly say that I'd ever noticed it before. What advantage is there to using the control key and using mouse selection in an icon-view?

Acid7711 · 2006-11-12 23:10:01

Because sometimes you can't select a huge group of icons in one pass with just the mouse. You sometimes must hold down control and select a second group to get them all in one quick pass. For example, I have a couple other icons (maybe some folders) on the desktop as well that I don't want selected that's in the group of other files I'm trying to select. I have to use two selects to go around them without selecting the folder, I know I can unselect just those, but that's a pita) I'm used to doing this, I enjoy doing this.

It drives me crazy that it unselects the ones that were previously selected the first time. There has to be a way to undo this. Like I said, Arch is the only distro where KDE does this by default for me.

Acid7711 · 2006-11-14 05:22:01

I just realized this same thing happens in Gnome too.

Arch Linux

#1 2006-11-12 09:05:39

Kde icon selection

#2 2006-11-12 21:39:42

Re: Kde icon selection

#3 2006-11-12 23:10:01

Re: Kde icon selection

#4 2006-11-14 05:22:01

Re: Kde icon selection

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