Feature changed by: Konstantin Neshin (b_m_kast) Feature #310979, revision 7 Title: Set the default mouse behaviour of KDE 4.x to double click to open files / folde openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Adam N (a-d4m) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Set the default mouse behaviour of KDE 4.x to double click to open files / folders. Current default is single-click to open files / folders Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Many new users migrating from other operating systems are more comfortable with a double-click behaviour. Gnome users are more comfortable with double-click. Accidentally hitting the mouse button will not resort in any action. In absence of statistics, I believe most users change the single-click behaviour to double-click. I prefer double-click Discussion: #1: Ricardo Gabriel Berlasso (rgbsuse) (2010-12-13 18:56:51) "In absence of statistics" a believe is not enough. For my part I prefer the default behavior (single click to select --green plus sign-- and single click to open) and simply cannot tolerate the old school double click when need to use windows or gnome based systems. On kde 3. x I used to use double click, but when started using kde4 it took me less than a minute to get used to the new system. #2: Peter Gumbrell (gumb) (2010-12-14 08:37:41) Repetitive double-clicking was one of the primary causes of RSI symptoms I developed years ago. I see KDE4's single-click implementation as well thought out and more of an accessibility boost (though I don't know technically the possible drawbacks for some users). There are still some points on my system (GNOME progs mainly) where I have to double-click and it feels so alien and a step back to the dark ages. I'd rather have a default that looks to a more sophisticated future than one which caters for users familiar with an inferior concept. #3: Benjamin Misja (alvanx) (2010-12-19 16:57:02) Once I deciced to dive and give it a try at around KDE 4.1, it didn't take very long for me to get used to one click opening. I consider this a huge usability improvement. When I had to get Win7 (dual-boot) earlier this year, I was excited to see that you can actually even set the single-click behavior in Windows! I don't think it hurts for people to try something new, especially if it is a) helpful and b) easy to get accustomed to. Besides, changing this setting is just a few clicks away for anyone (in fact about half as many as it would be with the double click behavior ;-) ). + #4: Konstantin Neshin (b_m_kast) (2010-12-20 07:42:54) + I've got used to single click absolutely, so my hand hurts when I try + using GNOME again :) But probably it's a good idea to add some kind of + "Emulate Windows Behaviour" option to the installer (at least when + installing openSUSE with KDE desktop), with a thorough explanation of + what it does. + Also, I recall a great configuration wizard that ran when the user + logged into KDE3 for the first time. AFAIK there's no such thing in + KDE4, although it would be extremely useful for KDE newcomers. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310979