[Qgis-developer] selective features unselection

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 12/02/2015 11:33 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 11:29:10AM +0100, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>> Hi Strk,
>>
>> It is indeed a bit problematic, esp. since other applications
>> (Inkscape, LibreOffice) use the Shift key to do the same thing. It
>> would be great if QGIS could align with that behavior that people
>> already know from other software.
>>
>> But maybe there is a technical reason to use the Ctrl-Key instead of
>> the Shift-Key.
> Gimp uses Shift and Ctrl for different things.
> IIRC Shift _adds_ while Ctrl _removes_ from selection.
> Not sure the Gimp has a _toggle_ too..

The print composer is aligned with GIMP functionality. And that's also
the one I am used to and normally expect from applications.

>
> Anyway, one issue I see is lack of visual feedback for
> what a modifier key does, you can only try to figure out.
> In Gimp the visual feedback is a minus sign for _remove_ (-)
> and a plus sign for _add_ (+). I'm not sure how a _toggle_
> sign would look like.

+1 for visual feedback.
Do we even need a toggle? I think that's just messy to handle anyway.


>
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