From release notes for FC5T3 (web)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Andy Green wrote:

>Hold on: Rahul pointed out on that two month old -devel thread that the
>decision was nothing to do with him.  Somebody who actually wrote the
>code is making the decisions about what is in and out AFAIK, and that's
>not anybody who has commented on this thread and probably not the -devel
>thread AFAIK.
>
>The people against the everything button were generally arguing from an
>architectural standpoint against encouraging people to install
>everything, and perhaps from a feeling to hold the party line.  But
>there's no real argument for making it *hard* to select or clear many
>checkboxes and I assume we'll see that fixed, allowing easy emulation of
>the lost functionality (minimal too) in an intuitive way.
>
Agreed on that, things like shift select or whatever functionality that 
makes it easier to select multiple checkboxes at the same time in the 
interface would be a good compromise if this is not possible already but 
I have noted that this particular feature hasnt been requested in 
bugzilla yet AFAIK.

-- 
Rahul