Feature changed by: Richard Bos (rbos) Feature #310979, revision 8 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. + #5: Richard Bos (rbos) (2010-12-20 10:23:35) (reply to #4) + > But probably it's a good idea to add some kind of > "Emulate Windows + Behaviour" option to the installer I don't agree with this. It would be + good to include an explanation that on linux (or in KDE) single click + is normal, with the reason why that is done. Because it is easier, it + prevents RSI (double click requires quite some musle power), etc. If + the double click option would be offered many people will just select, + and they won't be exposed to the better functionality that single click + is! + The explanation can provide the how to enable double click (open main + menu -> select personal settings -> mouse -> select double click (or + whatever the path is). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310979