On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > > 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. > > > So we have to copy windows ? no way. And since win98 this behavior could be > configured there to AFAIK. >
Did I say that? I only advocate sane defaults. The newbies are the ones who have problems with this. Anyone on this list could probably change the setting from the the console (if they even had to, chances are they won't notice the change, since they have already go their own settings). Any power user from windows could change it. We're talking about the people who have problems knowing when to single-click and when to double click *in windows*. Now you're going to have them double-clicking in Konqueror, and not knowing why they have two copies of everything open. > > > > Every person I have introduced linux to uses double-click under KDE, and > > that's quite a few people. > > So maybe it is your fault ;o) . They asked me to make it more like windows :-(. I think it is a lot faster in navigating with > single-click. And it is not that hard to learn. Ask a new user to do a multiple-file copy and paste in detailed view, then come back to me ... 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
