efficient selection of multiple files

[exalate-issue-sync]

User stories

• As a poweruser I would like to manage my file selection efficiently, like I already know it from my desktop file explorer.

Acceptance criteria

navigation

• via keyboard arrows up/down for moving up and down through the rows of the file list (don't cycle to the top when reaching the end, just stay there. similarly, don't cycle to the end when reaching the top, just stay there).

selection

• via keyboard space bar: select / deselect the currently highlighted row
• via keyboard shift + arrows up/down: add a series of rows
• via keyboard cmd/ctrl + a: select all rows. if paginated: only the items of the current page. our selection model doesn't span across pages.
• via keyboard esc: deselect all rows
• via mouse left click anywhere on row (of course except for otherwise interactive elements, e.g. indicators, quick actions, file name): replace the selection with the click row (no other rows selected).
• via mouse holding cmd/ctrl + left click on a row: add/remove the clicked item to/from the current selection model (i.e. toggle selection state of the clicked row)
• via mouse holding shift + left click on a row: add the clicked row and the series of rows towards the most recently clicked row to the current selection model. (this will require to memorize the most recently clicked item). note that this doesn't allow to remove items from the selection model.
• via mouse click on whitespace below the table rows: deselect all rows

[dschmidt]

I would like to add, that it would be nice to clear the selection with ESC

[tbsbdr]

good point, added it to the acceptance criteria. background (fyi): clearing via ESC is currently supported by box, dropbox and onedrive. windows explorer, macos finder and google drive don't have it.

[michaelstingl]

Maybe:

• un-select with clicking on the empty space below (seen in box.com, dropbox.com, onedrive.live.com)

[kulmann]

Maybe:

• un-select with clicking on the empty space below (seen in box.com, dropbox.com, onedrive.live.com)

added that as well and re-structured the acceptance criteria into navigation and selection (the latter segmented into keyboard only and mouse/keyboard hybrid).