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I agree with @zisoft, I already discussed that with @AlicVB but I have never been comfortable with the behavior of the filmstrip. It has even been harmful one or two times because the selection was kept after a single click and I had pasted a change to all the collection...

@AlicVB do you remember why this is done so?

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Ctrl-Click + Shift-Click on the filmstrip works just fine in both 4.6.0 and master. Note that there's no Alt for the first image selected (Ctrl-Alt-Click does nothing).

To deselect all, use Ctrl-Shift-A.

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What was the exact reason to set DT_THUMBNAIL_SEL_MODE_MOD_ONLY for the filmstrip?

If I comment out line 2588 I can use the filmstrip in a much more intuitive way: Single click selects the first image, shift+click selects the last image of a range. Single click again on any image selects that image and deselects the range. Exactly as in lighttable.

With DT_THUMBNAIL_SEL_MODE_MOD_ONLY I need to remember strange key combinations.
Even worse: On Mac I need to use Ctrl-Click to select the first image, to deselect all I need to use CMD+shift+A.

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I suspect it has something to do with the behavior in darkroom view, where a simple click switches editing to the clicked image, so you need to use Ctrl-Click to (de)select an image on the filmstrip.

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