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[Mark Curtis <merkinman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Regardless, one or the other has to be the default. I think that's more the discussion here, if changing the default behavior is beneficial.

> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 23:47:41 -0700
> From: nemes.sorin@xxxxxxxxx
> To: inquata@xxxxxxxxx
> CC: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Default to single click to open files and folders
> 
> 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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