On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 12:03 +0100, Jan Tojnar wrote: > Nautilus does have this feature: When you hold Control key pressed and > click a file/directory it will be added to a selection. If you hold > Control and Shift and then click a directory item, the whole range of > items between the last clicked will be added too. > > You can even use a keyboard to do this: Control with arrow keys allows > you to preselect an item and Space will add or remove it from the > selection. Unfortunately Control–Shift–Space does not add to the > selection like you might expect, but instead creates a new selection. > > This usage pattern is based on IBM’s Common User Access standard and > you can find similar behaviour in other GNOME, KDE or even Windows apps. > > Alternatively, you can use Control–S to select multiple files using a > pattern. This is Nautilus specific, though.
They works! thanks, but they are actually *hidden feature*, it is more than 10 year that I have a PC and using GNU/Linux over 5 year with a lot of experience but didn't know about this, so let alone new and amateur users!! This keyboard shortcuts also are not easy on tablet or smart-phone, so there is need to a graphical, easy and most important *visible* way to provide such function. GNOME Software and GNOME Videos alongside other Apps provides a visible button with a check mark icon (✓) on HeaderBar that provides selection function, this is the correct approach and I strongly believe GNOME Files should provide it like other Apps. On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 12:03 +0100, Carlo Lobrano wrote: > Hello Farhad, > > you can copy random files/folders keeping the CTRL button pressed while clicking with the mouse. Is that the function you were looking for, or did I misunderstand? > > Regards, > Carlo I'm not sure it can be called "random", because actually it's not random, you are seeing the items and select them consciously. -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
