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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:02, Remco <remco47@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:29, Alex Lourie <djay.il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I think single click should not be default, but there is one way of
> improving single selection in that mode: put a checkbox before each
> file and folder. This also makes it easier to do multi selection in
> any mode.
>

KDE defaults to this in dolphin.
it also defaults to comfortable single click.