MacOS multi-file selection ctrl-click functionality and usability improvements

[martinhoT]

Hello! My team has been working on some improvements to the file manager which were necessary for our use case. We want to share these contributions in case you find them useful as well.
We are not sure whether you want to incorporate them as-is, so we started this discussion. Sorry if you did not want discussions to be used for this.

We noticed the multi-file selection through ctrl-click does not function correctly on MacOS, because the operating system intercepts these events. In our fork, we made it so that the meta key (the Windows key on Windows and the Command key on MacOS) is also accepted in addition to the ctrl key. This has the side-effect that the Windows key can be used for multi-file selection as well, which was acceptable in our case. We did this to avoid complicating the code with OS-detection mechanisms. You may find the contribution here: BMDSoftware#4.

Additionally, we found clicking the checkboxes for file selection are difficult to click precisely, so we increased the click area by wrapping the checkbox with a padded label. If you find this could be useful, you can check the contribution here: BMDSoftware#3.

Thank you for developing and sharing the tool! We hope you find something helpful here.

[Saifullah-dev]

Hi @martinhoT , thank you so much for your kind words and these suggested solutions 🙌
I will definitely add these in the next few releases.