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[Alex Lourie <djay.il@xxxxxxxxx>]

So how would a simple selection be solved? If I want to select a file or a
folder, I single-click on it.

If this behavior changes, then A LOT of people will have to change their
behavior.

So if changing this hurts more people than helps, I'd say it requires a lot
of thinking ahead.

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 13:57 -0700, Tyler Brainerd wrote:
> > Agreement with Conscious user. To implement single clicks solves no
> > problem and creates a whole list of new ones.
>
> The solves-no-problem part is simply not true.
>
> For some people performing a double-click is hard. May it sound like a
> cliché, but my mother is much happier since I switched her system to
> single-click. She would be even happier if single-clicking would also
> work in file dialogs and Thunderbird's attachment.
>
> For a while I had issues with my fingers and double-clicking made it
> worse. It just feels so ridiculously arduous once you got used to single
> clicking.
>
>
> --
> Thorsten Wilms
>
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