On Sunday 09 March 2003 9:47 pm, David Walser wrote:
> Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
> > Le dim 09/03/2003 � 16:21, Brent Hasty a �crit :
> >>whose un-bright idea was it to make double click default in mdk 9.1 rc2?`
> >
> > I don't know who it is, but *a lot* of users coming from Windows were
> > having problems with the single click, and they ended up always starting
> > their application twice. I don't think it's an un-bright idea,
> > especially in the corporate environment.
>
> They do learn eventually though, and once you get used to the efficiency
> of single-click, you never go back.
I did go back for exactly the same reason jean-michel said. I've been using kde since
version 1.1 and always set it back to double click eventually.
>"Just because it's how Windows does it" or "it's what people are used to" is a stupid
>argument to do
> anything.
The argument isn't just because windows does it. It's just because the users do it.
> Sometimes it takes a little time to get used to something superior, but it works out
> best in the long run. And hey, if that
> wasn't true, we'd all be running Windows.
Can you say over-generalization. I could just have well been running OS X
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