http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12990/
On the Desktop, you could also drag the objects one by one into a pile and then drag a rectangle around them (I've seen people do this when they didn't know about Ctrl).

Neither is a great solution.

Selecting with rectangles is fine sometimes, but only if the things you want to select happen to be in a rectangle shape already, which is not very common.


[75 votes] Solution #1: Select with freeform lassos instead of rectangles


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I don't think it is useful at all in the real-world, it just makes it slower and trickier.

Icons are aligned, so doesn't help much.]]> Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:47:57 +0000 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:59:58 +0000 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:02:21 +0000
Yes, that's what it says. "Instead of just rectangles."]]> Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:06:03 +0000 Nice, then perhaps this wouldn't be so tricky. ;)]]> Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:00:27 +0000 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:08:45 +0000 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:51:11 +0000 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:16:06 +0000
I can imagine this being great on a touchscreen display, or using a graphics tablet.]]> Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:13:29 +0000
I think what others are saying above is that the default selection mode should maybe not be changed, but have a key that when you hold it down it goes into "lasso selection" mode. There are times when I feel it would be faster to use a rectangle.

I do like the autocomplete part of it though, it would be very slick to show this to people.]]> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:21:26 +0000 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:11:09 +0000 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:54:53 +0000 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:21:11 +0000
Well, you could still do all the things you can currently do with the Ctrl key.]]> Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:08:01 +0000 http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=ljqoz7poued&thumb=5]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:41:22 +0000 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:23:06 +0000