On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, David Walluck wrote: > Ben Reser wrote: > > > Well my experience is from seing lots of people ask me how to change it. > > I don't think there is an objective answer to which one is better. It's > > a matter of personal preference. Which one is the default should > > correspond with the majority of the users. Perhaps we need a club poll > > to determine this. > > > > I say leave it alone, since it's what the KDE people think it should be. > Unless Mandrake is going to start unifying the desktop all of a sudden > and next thing you know we have blue curve. > > 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.
The single-click doesn't expand trees is a seperate issue (bug, IMHO, and I will report it as such in bugzilla nezt time I have a chance ...). It doesn't change the fact that some things are near impossible to do with single-click the first time, and doing them a second time may mean waiting for OpenOffice.org to start up! Much more wasted time than having to click again ... > > 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? > > The ex-windows users are buying boxes, and don't know what a mailing list is (you would have to explain it a few times), so there's no way they are represented here. > 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. No, they will base it on total usability. Intuitive use (including doing what they expect) is a big part of that. Of course, maybe if KDE's (or Mandrake's) theme selection tool actually gave *really* good guesses for a user's preferences, it would be easier. Every person I have introduced linux to uses double-click under KDE, and that's quite a few people. Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
