https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377309
--- Comment #16 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> --- (In reply to David Edmundson from comment #15) > > 2. The double-click exists because some people prefer for the first click > > on a > > mouse-selectable item to select it rather than open it. > > That's guessing, the only thing we know is a user has gone explicitly out of > their way to turn this on. It is not guessing, it's literally the only reason to use double-click. If you don't understand why someone would prefer double-click, then you have no frame of reference for understanding the basis of this request. Also, Kubuntu has double-click as the default setting now, so all of the Kubuntu users have to go out of their way to use single-click. (In reply to David Edmundson from comment #15) > Users learn patterns. If something looks like something familiar, it should > always behave like that familiar thing. Standalone icons in a grid in a > frame should behave like standalone icons in a grid in a frame. Let's get conceptual: If two things behave the same, they should look the same. Kinda-sorta-similar (e.g. "icons in a grid in a frame") doesn't cut it. Identical or bust. This is one of the major user-centric reasons why widget toolkits exist: so that things that behave identically actually look identical. That's the only way users learn patterns. In a nutshell: - Identical appearance == "I know how this works!" - Even slightly different appearance == "I wonder what this weird new thing does? It's kind of similar to this other thing, but does it work the same? If it did, wouldn't it look the same? I don't know..." Dolphin's Icons view does not look identical to System Settings' Icon view. The icons are similar but not quite identical (e.g. Dolphin icons do not have a full-size highlight), and everything else is different: the background color, the presence of those group separator thingies, and the whole context: everyone knows what a file manager is and what a settings app is and the differences between them. Nobody looks at System Settings' icon view and thinks, "I bet these things behave just like to my file manager." That argument breaks down anyway because Dolphin has list and tree views that also respect the single/double-click setting, but it would be ridiculous to apply the setting to list items in other contexts. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
