Again I say, create the feature, make it optional, and keep everybody happy.
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 May 2010 02:46, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nn...@gmail.com> 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 just > > having an exceptionally lengthy discussion [1] in a "downstream" > usability > > related ML on exactly this topic.. > > Which one? Can you point me to TFA? Thanks. > > > > the essence i draw out of the discussion that there is inconsistency > > concerning single and double click.. looks like we have ourselves a big > fish > > here.. > > The clearest reason why we can consider ourselves well on the way to > single > > clicking is the difficulty associated with learning and applying double > > click [2] in the mutliple computing environments we use today > > (touch-screens, mobile phones, augmented reality stuff) > > It took me weeks to find out that double click on images would zoom in on > my > > touch screen enabled mobile phone.. the two finger gesture was more > obvious > > to me from beginning on, since it mimicks a physical interaction from the > > real world, which i can not say of double clicking. > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/DoubleClick > > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-click#Difficulties > > You mention the usability issues. There are also accessibility issues. > I don't know why Gnome borrowed Redmond's terrible double-click > paradigm, but it seems very entrenched. > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-l...@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list >
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