1078336 - Tree view is only trimodal

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Bugzilla Anthropology Metrics, defect)

Description

[Kyle Lahnakoski [:ekyle]]

from Olli,
> If I want to see the whole DOM team, excluding JS or Accessibility
> teams, I'd need to be able to select Johnny Stenback and everybody
> under him, except Naveed Ihsanullah and David Bolter and devs under
> them. But looks like whenever I deselect Naveed or David, also
> Johnny is deselected.

I was also disappointed that the tree widget was only tri-modal (selected, not-selected, or some-children-selected).  It is unable to distinguish between the node's item, and the node's tree:  So we can either select whole trees with a single click, or select individuals with a single click, but not both.

Make a new widget that allows quad-modal view (all-selected, self-selected-some-children-not, self-not-selected-some-children-are, none-selected), which can handle some complex selection with minimal clicking.

Comment 1

[Kyle Lahnakoski [:ekyle]]

Attachment: tree example

Comment 2

[Kyle Lahnakoski [:ekyle]]

done long ago