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[David Hamm <davidthamm@xxxxxxxxx>]

As a matter of dignity and manly pride I challenge you, Alex Lourie,
to open nautilus>edit>preferences>behavior>single click, for a week.
And after that week, comeback and complain!

btw. the whole freaking internet is single click. psh.

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Alex Lourie <djay.il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> User testing has revealed that single click comes more intuitively to
>> users than double click.
>
> Would you care to elaborate on that? What user testing?
> 90% of computers used today (Windows) using double click, another 5% of Mac
> using double click, so ALL LINUX users are split between single click and
> double click. So I'm not completely convinced about these user testing
> having place.
> Now, please don't get me wrong here - if there was such a testing I would
> happily look at it. I just know that I personally always turned this feature
> off.
> And please people, stop comparing this to the iPhone/iPad - the interface on
> those devices is different enough that no one ever would think to
> "double-tap" them. In addition, at least by default, they are not intended
> to work with files at all.
> --
> Alex Lourie
>
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