On 16 May 2010 02:46, Frederik Nnaji <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > has anyone tried simply enabling single clicks in Nautilus? > for a starters, that sufficed for me. That is great for Nautilus, but does not affect other Gnome apps such as F-spot. > i hope i'm not stepping on anybody's face if i mention that we are just > having an exceptionally lengthy discussion [1] in a "downstream" usability > related ML on exactly this topic.. Which one? Can you point me to TFA? Thanks. > the essence i draw out of the discussion that there is inconsistency > concerning single and double click.. looks like we have ourselves a big fish > here.. > The clearest reason why we can consider ourselves well on the way to single > clicking is the difficulty associated with learning and applying double > click [2] in the mutliple computing environments we use today > (touch-screens, mobile phones, augmented reality stuff) > It took me weeks to find out that double click on images would zoom in on my > touch screen enabled mobile phone.. the two finger gesture was more obvious > to me from beginning on, since it mimicks a physical interaction from the > real world, which i can not say of double clicking. > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ayatana/DoubleClick > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-click#Difficulties You mention the usability issues. There are also accessibility issues. I don't know why Gnome borrowed Redmond's terrible double-click paradigm, but it seems very entrenched. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
