Did you test it yet? Sure looks like it would get the job done.

Is there anything else you "changed"?

On 9/14/07, Rich at Whidbey Telecom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Although I advise users to switch to Firefox, I worked around the issue
> by allowing "alt + click" to behave the same as "ctrl + click".
>
> To implement it, change line 130 in program/js/common.js from:
>
> opcode += (e.ctrlKey && CONTROL_KEY) + (e.shiftKey && SHIFT_KEY);
>
> To:
>
> opcode += (((e.altKey == true) ? e.altKey : e.ctrlKey) && CONTROL_KEY) +
> (e.shiftKey && SHIFT_KEY);
>
> If this doesn't cause any problems, maybe it should be added to trunk?
>
> Rich
>
>
> Thomas Bruederli wrote:
> > Joel Clermont wrote:
> >> The biggest problem people moan about is multi-select. It is not
> >> intuitive to use a key modifier like Shift or Control to select multiple
> >> messages.
> >
> > What is not intuitive in this behavior? All apps behave like this.
> >
> >> In addition, in IE7 when you control-click it opens the
> >> message in another tab, so if you control-click 10 messages to delete
> >> them, you now also have 10 tabs to close.
> >
> > This is a problem currently not solved because IE7 does not allow the
> > javascript to cancel the event. And here we have a conflict between two
> > different points of view: some people want to have the message subject as
> > real link in order to open the message in a new tab by ctrl-clicking it and
> > others want to select multiple messages using ctrl-click.
> >> Is there something I am missing on this problem? Is there a setting
> >> where I can enable an old school checkbox column for people to use in
> >> multi-select?
> >
> > We don't have checkboxes and there won't be any checkboxes at all. And
> > please don't start yet another endless discussion about this!
> >
> > The only solution I see is to tell the users that they should not click the
> > message subject (but another col or whitespace) when selecting multiple
> > messages with ctrl.
> >
> > ~Thomas
> >
> >
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> Rich Sandberg
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> Whidbey Telecom Network Operations
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