Comment 8 for bug 49348

"It's not a feature that you would advertise if you were selling Ubuntu"

This is not a feature, it is what is commonly called a "hygiene factor" in engineering.
Hygiene factors are things that nobody notices when they exist but everybody will complain about when they are missing or broken.
Selecting objects via rubberband (almost) everywhere but *especially* in the file manager is so commonplace nowadays that this is an absolute must have.

This is THE single feature in file management that every single person I introduced Ubuntu to complained about within ten minutes of usage. (In contrast: absolutely nobody currently cares about touch features, where a lot of effort seems to go.)

Please reconsider and prioritize.