I’ll throw in that while I’ve never tried to double click anything other than a 
process group in the UI (so Lee’s information was welcome), Matt Burgess’ 
explanation of “drill down” is extremely intuitive to me and is exactly how my 
brain would reconcile the difference between double clicking a process group 
vs. a processor.

Andy LoPresto
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> On Oct 24, 2016, at 11:18 AM, Russell Bateman 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm sort of a new user, but I surely second Matt's expressed view. It's how I 
> conceptualize it too.
> 
> (My two cents.)
> 
> Russ
> 
> On 10/24/2016 09:03 AM, Rob Moran wrote:
>> I think the logic Matt B described would make a lot of sense to experienced
>> users, but it is changing behavior of the action and that *could* confuse
>> new users.
>> 
>> But as Lee brought up it is already being used differently, so it very well
>> could be appreciated as learned behavior.
>> 
>> It would be nice to expose common actions (like configure) on the faces of
>> components so they are only a single click away. However, it would be tough
>> to add more to them given current layouts.
>> 
>> Rob
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Matt Gilman <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Certainly not the first time this has been brought up... in fact, there's
>>> already a JIRA for it [1]. Use of double click on the connection is a great
>>> counter point for consistency between the components.
>>> 
>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1580
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Lee Laim <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Don't forget about connection behavior.
>>>> 
>>>> Double-click on a connection places a movable vertex on the connection.
>>>> Double-click on a vertex deletes it.
>>>> 
>>>> Very intuitive once you realize it's there.
>>>> 
>>>> Lee
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Oct 24, 2016, at 8:21 AM, McDermott, Chris Kevin (MSDU -
>>>> STaTS/StorefrontRemote) <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> I like this, Matt.  It has often find myself double clicking to try to
>>>> configure, or view configuration.  It just seems natural.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Chris McDermott
>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 10/24/16, 9:50 AM, "Matt Burgess" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>    +1 for avoiding confusion or changing existing behavior, but I
>>> think a
>>>>>    good compromise is to leave the Configure option on both context
>>> menus
>>>>>    (right-click, e.g.) and add the double-click behavior to the
>>> Processor
>>>>>    to open the configuration dialog. In that case, the default
>>>>>    (double-click) option for both Processors and Process Groups is no
>>>>>    longer "nothing" and "Enter Group" respectively; rather it is
>>>>>    conceptually something like "Drill-down". For PGs drill-down is
>>> Enter
>>>>>    Group, for Processors you can't drill down any further than the
>>> config
>>>>>    dialog, so that becomes the default action for double-click.
>>>>> 
>>>>>    Thoughts? Thanks,
>>>>>    Matt
>>>>> 
>>>>>    On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Pierre Villard
>>>>>    <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> Yep, that's a good point and I agree we should avoid confusion with
>>>>>> different behaviors depending of the components.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks Matt!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Pierre
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 2016-10-24 13:44 GMT+02:00 Matt Gilman <[email protected]>:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Pierre,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Currently the double click action is used to enter a Process Group.
>>>>>>> There's been discussion in the past on this mailing about possibly
>>>> using it
>>>>>>> to configure. My only hesitation there would be the inconsistency
>>>> between
>>>>>>> action on the different components. Unless of course we also switch
>>> the
>>>>>>> action for entering a group. Then I start to worry about confusing
>>> the
>>>> user
>>>>>>> with changing up the existing behavior too much.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Matt
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Oct 24, 2016, at 7:39 AM, Pierre Villard <
>>>> [email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I was wondering if there is any reason why the double click action
>>> is
>>>> not
>>>>>>>> used in the UI? I think this could be a nice shortcut to access
>>>>>>>> "Configure/View configuration" view from elements on the canvas.
>>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>>>> Pierre
>>>>> 
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