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

Again I say, create the feature, make it optional, and keep everybody happy.

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 16 May 2010 02:46, Frederik Nnaji <[email protected]> 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.
>
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