303245 - Should be able to click and drag to select multiple downloads in Downloads window

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Downloading, enhancement)

Description

[Nick Kreeger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+

Should be able to click-hold and then select downloads in the download manager.
This should work like select-clicking. Currently when you click-hold and try to
select more downloads, the manager will only select the first instance that was
clicked on originally.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start 2 > downloads
2.Try to click-hold and select those downloads
3.

Actual Results:  
Only the first download was selected

Expected Results:  
Should have selected all the downloads that the mouse was draggeed over

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Confirming as RFE.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Updating summary...

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

*** Bug 304016 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

-> kreeger

Comment 5

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Cmd-A should also work here, when the DM has focus.

Comment 6

[Jasper]

This is all caused by the fact that it's not a real NSTable view, if it was it would just look and behave like all the table views apps normally use, or like we do in boomarks.

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Targeting to 1.2 with the rest of our DL manager bugs. Stuart said something recently about making this a real NSTable view, I think.

Comment 8

[Michael Monreal [:micmon]]

Would be great if someone could look into this, now that the new download window is in place. The same problem the original reporter described applies here, only that now the last-clicked element is the one that gets selected.

Comment 9

[Stuart Morgan]

There is no new download window; you are probably looking for a bug against a product other than Camino.

Comment 10

[Michael Monreal [:micmon]]

Woa... sorry. I meant to search firefox bugs...

Comment 11

[Ilya Sherman]

Tentatively taking; though if someone else wants to try this, don't be shy ;)

Comment 12

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Ilya's fixed both Shift-click and Cmd-A at some point along the 2.0 road.

Re-summarizing to make this just about click-drag (and note that as of 10.5, click-drag in list/outline-view type stuff in the OS, e.g. a Finder window in list view, requires that you click and drag in empty space where there is no text).

Ilya mentions this will probably be difficult:

[11:50pm] ilya: it looks like that bug should be about equally hard to do relative to the multi-drag bug
[11:51pm] ilya: they both suffer from not having any view object corresponding to the whole list

Comment 13

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

[Mass-change filter: graveyard-wontfix-2014-09-24]