I've gotten accustomed to using move and arrow keys to avoid this. On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 10:28:04 AM UTC-5 Richard Collings wrote:
> I would agree. I have now got used to doing the click, release, click > again to select but as you say, Iain this is not consistent with how other > UI’s work and is particularly annoying until you work out the work around. > > > > The occasions on which I want to select multiple items in MLO are rare and > when I do need to do it, I use Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click (which also work) > to select the items. > > > > So I would also vote to change this behaviour to make it consistent with > Windows and other apps > > > > Richard > > > > *From:* mylifeo...@googlegroups.com <mylifeo...@googlegroups.com> *On > Behalf Of *Iain Carlin > *Sent:* Sunday, August 13, 2023 11:48 PM > *To:* MyLifeOrganized <mylifeo...@googlegroups.com> > *Subject:* [MLO] Annoying 'feature' - mouse click selects area rather > than item > > > > Hi, > > > > In the desktop app, I frequently want to drag and drop a task from one > context or folder to another. > > > > If you click on a task then drag the mouse, it selects the task and > whatever other tasks you happend to drag the mouse over. > > > > Normally, I would expect that to work more like windows file explorer, > where it would begin dragging the selected task. > > > > To achieve that, it's necessary to click (i.e. select) the task, un-click > the mouse, then click again and do the drag to move. > > > > It's inconsistent with the way most other UI's operate. > > > > Hoping it can be addressed in a future update. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Iain Carlin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to mylifeorganiz...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/87bfd05b-95b7-4a19-9b5b-b499e8a14469n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/87bfd05b-95b7-4a19-9b5b-b499e8a14469n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/b56fbc37-b8f6-48d6-9602-2898d81a2447n%40googlegroups.com.
