kcontrol -> Hardware -> Mouse -> General -> Double-click to open files and folders (default?? Widows?)
All,
Do we really want a double-click mouse by default? I've never seen this as the default it kde -> took me a while to find it.
Any thoughts?
On 21 March 2012 23:07, David C. Rankin drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com wrote:
All,
Do we really want a double-click mouse by default? I've never seen this as the default it kde -> took me a while to find it.
Any thoughts?
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
I always thought a double click was sensible. Here's why. A single click selects an item, this is useful for selecting multiple items, dragging and dropping doing all sorts of cool stuff like preview pictures. Single click opens can get in the way of that, not to mention stray clicks between windows and other slipups. A double click is intentional, and is hard to mistakingly double click on an item. seems that would be a good reason to keep it as default.
Calvin
On 03/21/2012 10:21 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
I always thought a double click was sensible.
I did too, until I tried the single-click implementation in kde3 - blew me away with the efficiencies it brings. The whole key is knowing where to click. In konqueror, to select (set focus) without executing, click in the filename column (to the right of the filename in the blank area - not on the filename), etc.. Once I began using single-click, I couldn't ever imagine going back to double-click.
Now don't get me wrong, I still use double-click on M$ because their single-click implementation suck compared to tde, but man, Linux is a single click wonder :)
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:29 AM, David C. Rankin < drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On 03/21/2012 10:21 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
I always thought a double click was sensible.
I did too, until I tried the single-click implementation in kde3 - blew me away with the efficiencies it brings. The whole key is knowing where to click. In konqueror, to select (set focus) without executing, click in the filename column (to the right of the filename in the blank area - not on the filename), etc.. Once I began using single-click, I couldn't ever imagine going back to double-click.
Now don't get me wrong, I still use double-click on M$ because their single-click implementation suck compared to tde, but man, Linux is a single click wonder :)
I've been using it too. Actually I've noticed users new to computers have trouble double clicking and single clicking is simpler for them. Perhaps that is something worth dwelling upon.
Best regards, Tiago
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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Do we really want a double-click mouse by default? I've never seen this as the default it kde -> took me a while to find it.
Any thoughts?
Yeah, stop trying to convert the world. The savior complex has killed many people in history. :)
Single click is for geeks and Mac dweebs. The remainder of the populace is accustomed to double-click. That should be the default. I want people to use Trinity and that means dealing with some things that are status quo. After they use Trinity regularly they can learn about single click.
Change the defaults for your packages. I do.
In my build script, after the make and make install is complete, I perform housekeeping chores. I have a small template kdeglobals config file in my tdebase build directory:
[General] XftAntialias=true XftHintStyle=hintfull XftSubPixel=rgb
[KDE] DoubleClickInterval=700 SingleClick=false
Notice I change the double click interval to something sane. The default requires people to move their fingers faster than rabbits copulating.
In my build script I overwrite the default kdeglobals file with mine:
if [ ! -e $PKG${PREFIX}/share/config/kdeglobals ]; then cat $CWD/config/kdeglobals > $PKG${PREFIX}/share/config/kdeglobals chmod 644 $PKG${PREFIX}/share/config/kdeglobals ...
Just one example. :)
Darrell
On 03/21/2012 10:22 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote:
Yeah, stop trying to convert the world. The savior complex has killed many people in history. :)
Not trying to convert the world - just making sure we wanted it that way. No big deal either way, but if the first kde3 install I tried didn't have single-click set, I probably would have continued with double-click oblivious to what single-click can do :)
Not trying to convert the world - just making sure we wanted it that way. No big deal either way, but if the first kde3 install I tried didn't have single-click set, I probably would have continued with double-click oblivious to what single-click can do :)
Just joshin' with ya as the smileys hopefully indicated. :)
The default was changed to double-click 2010-09-18 in GIT hash 5ec667408632981bb995a8af480429469d19d756.
Darrell
On 03/21/2012 11:04 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote:
Not trying to convert the world - just making sure we wanted it that way. No big deal either way, but if the first kde3 install I tried didn't have single-click set, I probably would have continued with double-click oblivious to what single-click can do :)
Just joshin' with ya as the smileys hopefully indicated. :)
The default was changed to double-click 2010-09-18 in GIT hash 5ec667408632981bb995a8af480429469d19d756.
Darrell
Something positive did come out of the discussion. I found this while working through the settings:
http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=926
No KDE restart required on this setting.
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, David C. Rankin wrote:
Do we really want a double-click mouse by default? I've never seen this as the default it kde -> took me a while to find it.
hmmm... I think I remember having to dig down in kcontrol on this Trinity 3.5.11 to find out how to set it to single-click after the install.
I could be wrong. That happens from time to time...
Jonesy
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