Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-17 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 19:40, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 17 May 2010 17:35, DARKGuy . wrote: > > Again I say, create the feature, make it optional, and keep everybody > happy. > > Of course the idea is to be optional. Many people are happy and > familiar with double-click. > that's because it is

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 17 May 2010 17:35, DARKGuy . wrote: > Again I say, create the feature, make it optional, and keep everybody happy. Of course the idea is to be optional. Many people are happy and familiar with double-click. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-17 Thread Walter Prins
It is interesting that MS actually tried to move away from the double click paradigm as early as (IIRC) Win 98. Early beta's of 98 had single clicking (web style) behaviours for desktop shortcuts, icons etc. on by default. Eventually they decided (for whatever reason) to do exactly what DarkGuy su

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-17 Thread DARKGuy .
Again I say, create the feature, make it optional, and keep everybody happy. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 16 May 2010 02:46, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > > has anyone tried simply enabling single clicks in Nautilus? > > for a starters, that sufficed for me. > > That is gr

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
2010/5/17 Kristoffer Lundén : > In Vista at least, you have a great feature for single click mode, where in > icon/desktop mode, a checkbox appears in the corner on hover, so it's easy > to select OR run with a single click, and it's real easy to select a few > scattered files without resorting to

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 16 May 2010 02:46, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > has anyone tried simply enabling single clicks in Nautilus? > for a starters, that sufficed for me. That is great for Nautilus, but does not affect other Gnome apps such as F-spot. > i hope i'm not stepping on anybody's face if i mention that we are

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-17 Thread Kristoffer Lundén
2010/5/14 Dotan Cohen > On 14 May 2010 17:07, Dario Soto wrote: > > Exactly. In KDE and Windows in single-click mode file manager, one > clicks the file to open it, and if he needs to select it he can either > use the rubber-band feature (draw a rectangle around the icon) or can > use the Ctrl k

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-16 Thread Steven Edwards
Dotan, The following workaround may help: Edit /usr/share/X11/xkb/compat/mousekeys Locate the following section: interpret Pointer_Button_Dflt { action= PointerButton(button=default); }; Change the action line to: action= PointerButton(button=default,count=2); Then re

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-15 Thread Frederik Nnaji
has anyone tried simply enabling single clicks in Nautilus? for a starters, that sufficed for me. i hope i'm not stepping on anybody's face if i mention that we are just having an exceptionally lengthy discussion [1] in a "downstream" usability related ML on exactly this topic.. the essence i dra

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14 May 2010 22:20, Steven Edwards wrote: > Dotan, > > The following workaround may help: > > Edit /usr/share/X11/xkb/compat/mousekeys > > Locate the following section: > >    interpret Pointer_Button_Dflt { >        action= PointerButton(button=default); >    }; > > Change the action line to: >

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14 May 2010 20:49, Calum Benson 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 ic

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14 May 2010 17:07, Dario Soto wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:46 AM, 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 r

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14 May 2010 06:37, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > Hi again. > > Dotan, first I should apologize. Your message came in while I was trying > to undo something I'd done which completely and utterly hosed my gdm. I > should have either not answered or I should've made more time. My saying > this: > >> In

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14 May 2010 06:01, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > >> Thanks, Joanie, but that does not sound much better than a >> double-click would be (one long click). Can that slider be reduced to >> 0 time, effectively making it a single click? > > In order to try it, it appears I would need to install mousetwe

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-14 Thread Calum Benson
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

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-14 Thread Dario Soto
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:46 AM, 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

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-14 Thread David Colven
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. David David Colven Technical Advisor Th

Re: [Usability] Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

2010-05-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 14 May 2010 05:54, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > Hi Dotan. > >> Can an accessibility or usability expert please take a look at the >> following bug: >> "Single-click mode for all Gnome apps" >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358731 > > In the Mouse Preferences dialog on the Accessibility