Le 23 juillet 2025 11:01:36 GMT+02:00, Lucy <luc...@diplomats.com> a écrit :
>Dear Debian Developers,
Dear Lucy,
for the record to everyone this has already been discussed in #1101759 [1] and
I declined to do the change discussed here.
Answering here as the Debian Plasma maintainer and member of the Debian Desktop
team.
>With the upcoming release of Debian 13 "Trixie", I want to formally raise a
>critical technical objection to one of the adopted upstream changes that risks
>undermining the efficiency,
>consistency, and user trust that Debian has long upheld:
>
>KDE Plasma 6's decision to enforce double-click as the default behavior for
>file interaction.
Indeed that's what we've been shipping in Trixie since upstream did the change.
>This change, introduced by KDE's upstream maintainers and publicly promoted by
>Nate Graham, is not a neutral adjustment.
>It constitutes a user experience regression that actively degrades workflow
>efficiency for advanced users and developers,
>and contradicts Debian's historical role as a distribution that respects user
>autonomy and practicality over cosmetic defaults.
>
>_*I strongly urge the Debian Desktop Team to consider overriding this default
>or at minimum providing an opt-in mechanism at installation time.*_
>
>*1. Debian's strength lies in curating, not copying upstream*
Indeed that's what we do. And my conclusion on the topic is that double-click
is fine as a default.
>2. The double-click change is functionally regressive*
I disagree with that statement and your analysis. I consider it a matter of
taste.
>*3. "New user friendliness" is not a Debian design principle*
Maybe, maybe not. But in this case I think the upstream default is fine.
>*4. Combined with Wayland, this shift further fragments usability*
>
>Wayland is now being shipped by default in KDE 6, despite known limitations
>with multi-display, remote workflows, legacy software, and graphical tablet
>support.
Quite the opposite, the support for touch, multi-screen, various scaling and
refresh rates are already must better with Wayland in the trixie version of
Plasma.
There are some remaining issues to address with Wayland that upstream KDE
tracks very publicly at [1].
>*5. Proposal: restore or prompt for interaction mode*
>*6. Debian must remain a power-user OS by default*
I'm pretty sure power user not change a default option to what they prefer,
right ?
You can even automate this setup in any way you like by adding the following to
your ~/.config/kdeglobals :
[KDE]
SingleClick=true
Mind you I like single click and it's not going away. I backported a commit to
dolphin for trixie just this morning to fix a bug specific to single click mode…
But I don't think we have convincing enough arguments to diverge from upstream
for Debian's defaults here.
[1] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1101759>
[2] <https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland_Known_Significant_Issues>
Happy hacking,
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Aurélien
