KDE also gives the option of having double or sincle clicks. I am, and
probably always will be, a fan of double clicking, as it provides greater
flexibility with the UI. A UI is a very personal thing. That's why we have
things like themes and configurable toolbars. The beauty of Linux is that you
can choose what you want, and if you can't then you can tell the developers
about it, or better yet contribute to the coding yourself. I firmly believe
that there should be no "Linux way" for most things. Sure, there should be
standards, but people should be given the choice to try something else if
they wish. Linux (and Unix) even allow you to choose the type of command-line
shell you want (bash, csh, ash, zsh...)!
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 06:41, Paul wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Ian Land wrote:
>
> I accidentally forgot to delete this mail in the gates gets linux thread,
> so I saw that the title was far away from the text.
> In XFCE there's a simple setting to use a 1 click to call up a program.
> And XFCE is not KDE, so hereby I prove that the below sentence is not
> true. :p
>
> Paul
>
> >Well, that's only true if you use a window manager like KDE. Others, like
> >Gnome, use double-clicks. So, a single-click is not "the Linux way". The
> >Windows gui can be configured to act like Internet Explorer, which also
> > means single-clicks. This isn't an OS question, it's a gui question.
> >
> >> One of the "bad habits" is having to double-click
> >> when a single click will do. For those of us
> >> who use both OS's it's quite distracting, and I
> >> think the Linux way makes more sense.
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