On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:37:59PM -0500, David Walluck wrote: > In my previous email I pointed out some serious usability problems with > double-click that need to (should) be fixed before enabling double-click > in KDE. Double-clicking in a tree is much more annoying to me than > single-clicking on the desktop. OK, so we fix one Windows user's > "problem" by making the desktop double click, but we create one just as > serious by screwing up the treeviews, which are used all over the place > in Windows, not just the desktop, so you can bet Windows users have seen > them.
Actually back in the days when it was double click on Windows most tree views were double click. IE was an exception to the rule. I'm not sure how the current versions of Windows behave with tree views and double clicking. But I just checked Windows 98 and it does indeed require a double click on tree views. And I've never heard a user complaining about double clicking on a tree view. I seem to recall the rationale for IE being single click for tree views was that they were trying to make the web-browser more consistent, so since you had to click once on URLs they changed the tree-view. > And of course it angers me that Mandrake would prefer to attract some > phantom Windows users, than to keep th Linux user's it has happy. Where > are all these Windows user's who said the only reason they weren't using > Mandrake is because it (supposedly) doesn't have double-click? > > Do you think someone is going to base Linux on whether it has > double-click on by default or not? I sure hope this isn't the case. Mandrake has yet to say why they made the change. And I never said it was about attacting windows users. You did. I just said most users (IMHO) prefered it that way. At this point most users are not Windows users. And the current version of Windows doesn't even default to double click anymore. Mandrake is charged with coming up with sensible defaults. You're entitled to your opinion. But it's a default not a set in stone type of thing. So why are you making a big stink about it? To me this is like complaning because the desktop is blue and you hate the color blue. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols
