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[Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 07:04, Alex Lourie <djay.il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Maybe think of another metaphor? I don't believe that tablet usability
> issues should dictate
> what happens on the desktop where we do have a keyboard and a mouse.

yeah right, tablets alone are not enough reason to become real with
clicking..

So here some other popular use-cases:
*Webkiosk mode
*Mouse-only terminals
*Touchpads on netbooks and notebooks
*Touchscreen enabled desktop computers and notebooks
*Accessibility

Are there other use cases maintaining double-click outside *selecting
objects comfortably *and *word processing* in our desktop enviroment?

Can we not confidently abandon double click for all other cases?

I think we have been looking for excuses long enough to keep this phenomenon
alive, where the web is leading us to naturally behave otherwise.

Surely, file managers are evolving (Zeitgeist, Nepomuk), yet outside *
managing* files, there's no real place for interaction barriers like
Double-click to be around anymore..

Most prominent examples:
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The desktop "folder"

2010/5/23 Kristoffer Lundén <kristoffer.lunden@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Maybe I should also mention that I raised the idea on the Nautilus mailing
> list back then, and while there was no big discussion, the answer was that
> it was a nice idea, but there was no developer time available to develop it.
> So it would probably be accepted upstream if implemented.
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/nautilus-list@xxxxxxxxx/msg04211.html
>
> / Kristoffer
>

Thank you.
Most important is the improvement of the already existing Single-Click mode,
and i see checkboxes as a very good idea in that respect. Ideas for the
improval of this already existing mode are more valuable than yet another
discussion about how many excuses we can find NOT to talk about this..