>> I see one problem: Many people habitually double-click everything - >links, >> buttons, you name it. If you double-click the button, the second click >ends >> up confirming it. > >That's an interesting point. i've been using KDE in single-click mode >for many years, so i haven't actually double-clicked anything since i >had (was forced) to use Windows some time in 2006... thus i didn't >consider the posibility that so many people double-click out of habit. >Once you get used to single-clicking everything, double-clicking >becomes tedious and seems downright barbaric. > >Now that i think about it, i'm constantly saying to my g/f, "don't >DOUBLE-click those links! That causes two hits on the server!" as if >she might someday magically understand what i mean by that. :/
I'll also confirm that my finding the majority of non-hardcore users tend to double-click. Heck, one of my previous supervisors used to double-click every thing on a web page. People get in such a habit of double-clicking to open icons, they tend to do it for everything. -Dan
