On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 20:07, Ben Reser wrote: > 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.
Windows uses the slightly ugly hack of the little plus signs on tree views. To open a tree view level, you either double click the entry, or single-click the tiny plus sign on it. -- adamw
