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On the topic of double click or single click - the user should choose
not others. Open Source should not became a prison.

2010/5/12 Jan-Christoph Borchardt <inquata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> What about that? Are there any plans already to default to single
> click for opening files and folders in Ubuntu?
>
> It is way more intuitive to open with just a single click and have the
> modifier for the less frequent use-case of selecting (multiple)
> elements.
>
> Launcher icons are also activated by single click.
>
> A reverse example: My mother always double clicks links in the browser
> – regardless how often I tell her that it is not necessary. Muscle
> memory and habit is just too strong. Regarding that nowadays, people
> presumably spend more time in their web browser instead of their file
> manager, it would make sense to adopt the web standard for clicking.
>
> On a sidenote: I know two kids who changed the click behavior to
> single click on their own. They see double clicking as just annoying.
>
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