[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 121967] Can't select/pick multiples shapes or images in Writer/Calc/Impress/Draw with CTRL key

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121967

--- Comment #22 from Pedro <vermelhusco1904 at gmail.com> ---
Okay, I am sorry if I came of as aggressive.
But I find it very distasteful that Stuart insinuates that I want to use
"Microsoft" convention. How is that constructive?
It's not a Microsoft convention. It's a general convention.
Go select multiple files in file managers and you use Ctrl while holding Shift
gives you a different action in those cases.

Use any other Office suite besides Libre Office and Ctrl is used to select
multiple objects. However, having to choose between Ctrl and Shift in most of
these Office suites is not an issue because you can use Ctrl or Shift
interchangeably. Yes, in Powerpoint you can use Shift to select multiple
objects OR Ctrl by default. It provides flexibility to the user to do as he
wants to.

I already numbered the Office suites that I tested that use Ctrl to select/pick
multiple objects/images. 

Test:
1 - Open Office suite,
2 - Insert three shapes in corresponding presentation software,
3 - Hold Ctrl to select multiple objects,
4 - Deselect all shapes,
5 - Hold Shift to select multiple objects.

Expected result:
I can select multiple objects with Ctrl.
I can select multiple objects with Shift.

Results:

Can select multiple objects with Ctrl AND Shift:
1 - Microsoft Office
2 - Google Docs
3 - Only Office (another open-source Office suite FYI)
4 - WPS Office

Can select multiple objects only with Shift:
1 - LibreOffice.

These same Office suites simultaneously allow users to use Shift and Ctrl. Both
shortcuts are activated by default.
So instead of LibreOffice having Shift OR Ctrl as ONE shortcut, it should
conform to what every other Office suite does: provide both Shift or Ctrl as
default options to select multiple objects.

So while advanced users (which I consider myself to be one and I always thought
that LibreOffice was broken in this regard) might be used to Shift, novice
users might be used to Ctrl. In ANY OTHER Office suite, a novice user will use
Ctrl. In libreOffice he can't. A novice user will assume LibreOffice is broken
and will use another Office suite.

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