[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 150461] Allow deselecting tables in View->Tables

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150461

--- Comment #8 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7)
> (In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #5)
> > Uh??? When you have an object selected, it is *very* common to select
> > outside to deselect it (without selecting anything else).
> 
> True for drawing objects but not lists. You don't need to click the word to
> select an entry. Even MS file explorer keeps the list item active when
> clicking white space.

This is playing words. In Windows Explorer, when you click outside of files,
the *selection* is cleared, and the context changes (see the context menus
there). They keep the focus frame to hint from where navigation would start if
user uses arrow keys, but not to keep user guessing if something is selected or
not.

> But the better example of what I mean is the left
> folders pane.

Totally wrong. The left Pane defines location context, and you can't be outside
of any location at any time in Explorer's world. And the correct analogy in our
case is View->Tables, which defines our location. We can't be outside of any
such location, too.

But the selected object is what defines on what the user will perform actions.
And for any location where there are objects, and you might add more,
everything unelected is a common context, familiar to everyone. I am actually
puzzled how *that* could be controversial.

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