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KDE Goes and Does It (Double-Click By Default, That Is) - OMG! Linux (www.omglinux.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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KDE Plasma 6 will require users to double-click on files and folders to open them by default.
This change is controversial for those familiar with single-click behavior in KDE Plasma.
Click behavior in KDE Plasma 6 is configurable, allowing users to choose between single-click and double-click.

https://archive.ph/BseL3

This is one of the first things I always tweak in KDE, so I love this change, but I'm curious how others feel.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I think it's great. I think it's impossible to use dolphin with single click since it goes into folders or starts files when clicking on them once.

Anyone knows the historic reason for single click? Plasma was inspired by some older system?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think it was windows 98 that introduced "hovering on an item" = single click and single click = double click. Disabled by default of course

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Oh god, I'd forgotten the dark days of windows UI introduced with the active desktop update

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It was introduced by "Active Desktop", which came with IE4. So if you installed IE4, you also got this on Windows 95.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Use the terminal mostly anyway, but navigating deeply nested folders when you have to double click is slightly annoying so I can see the appeal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I don't see why they can't just have the folders behave differently.
Just make opening folders single click & executing/opening everything else double click.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

That would annoy everyone. I like it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Bash is superior, but if I'm going to use the UI I just use tree view in Dolphin so I can expand folders with a single-click while seeing the directory structure.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I could definitely be remembering wrong, but if I remember correctly there was a TechOverTea video by Brodie Robertson featuring Nicco Loves Linux aka Niccolo Venerandi where this topic came up in which there was the mention of I think something to do with carpal tunnel, and a weird drag-to-select bug or something.
My memory is a little hazy here.