On 14 May 2010 20:49, Calum Benson <calum.ben...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On 14 May 2010, at 10:16, David Colven wrote: > >> Why is it not possible to have 'single click where you normally double >> click' as a setting as in Windows etc? It does mean that hyperlinks or >> desktop icon cannot be highlighted, but to rename icons for example one >> would have to employ a right click menu. > > I'm sure it would be possible... however, it would most likely require > changes in several gtk+ widgets, and in many GNOME applications both to > ensure all functions were still available in single-click mode, and to work > around any other side-effects it might cause. So I'd imagine it's not a > trivial piece of work. >
Certainly not trivial, but possible and even necessary as displayed in every other DE. > That said, now is probably as good a time as any to get it on the GNOME 3.x > agenda. You might get more useful feedback on the feasibility of the work > involved by raising it directly with the gtk developers over on > gtk-devel-l...@gnome.org. > Thanks, Calum, I will bring it up there. Have a great weekend. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
