Finally. Single click to open a file/directory is the first feature that I disable on a fresh system.
Why though? It should increase the life expectancy of your mice and touchpads because it results in fewer clicks and the mechanical parts thereby don’t wear out so much.
Because no other OS or DE that I use does that and it’s not convenient to jump from one to another. As of the wear, I think it’s marginal. My main file manager is
mcanyway.The number of times I’ve accidentally opened files I didn’t want to with single click is obscene.
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boo this man
Personally, I disable it first thing after installing and I think it’s easier this way for those who come from Windows. Those who still prefer the single click, can easily enable it again. Not a big deal.
More like for anybody coming from Windows, Mac or 90% of other DEs
I recently switched to KDE and got sooo confused by this not being default. Good they’re making the change, small but important.
Noooo I’ve been using Plasma for over 7 years now and single click became default for me. I’ll change it back anyways but still seems like a pointless change to me.
I’ll change it back anyways
You don’t need to, this is only few new installations
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Living life on the edge, what a stud 😎
How are you even supposed to select files and folders in single-click? The tiny little + box that’s very easy to miss?
I usually drag a selection. It kind of rare that I want to select a single file and just select it and not go ahead and simultaneously open a context menu with the right mouse button.
Even on windows I mostly do ctrl + left click. If I’m selecting files I’m most likely going to copy/cut/paste them, so I’m most likely going to have my other hand on the keyboard anyway
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Now let’s don’t bring that fictional character historically used as the ultimate tool of oppression by feudal rulers and governments and now by conservatives into the matter :)
I get why they’re doing it, so it’s not a big deal for me as long as I can still use single click to open folders.
That being said, double click always seemed like a weird “hack” to use what is essentially the main function of the left click, no? As in, the primary thing I want to do when left clicking something is to go to that thing. Go to that folder, go to that link and go to (open) that application. “Selecting” is not the main action I use so I’ve always felt weird when “selecting” gets what is essentially the main function of the mouse, the left click.
LESS GO, I finally don’t have to change that setting every time I use KDE
Well, now I will start changing this setting every time
Btw, for those who think it’s natural to select things by left clicking on them, try pressing
spacein dolphin to activate the “selection mode”.The minimum screen brightness is now always 1, and the minimum keyboard brightness is now always 0, ensuring that the screen backlight never turns off completely at minimum brightness, while the keyboard backlight always does
That’s cool, but is it still possible to easily switch off the screen? For laptops, that’s useful from time to time, when you don’t want to close the lid and lock it, but you’re waiting for a long running operation or just listening to music, and want to save battery power.
I think the best way would be that when long pressing the brightness lowering key, it stops lowering it at 1% as with this change, but pressing it once more would make it 0.Also, I wasn’t able to keep up with recent changes. Does anyone know if it’s possible now to customize the rounded corners of windows and panels?
Oh Noooooooo! Why change a sane default? It is like… we (the developed world) also don’t change back to measuring distances with our arms and legs just to cater for american people and just because there are a lot of them… Or our body weight in stones.
What’s next? Changing LibreOffice’s file format every few years and make it impossible to gather sane log data and fix your issues yourself, so that it feels more like ‘home’ for the windows users?
Why bother so much with a default that can be easily changed? It’s not like they deleted single click…
You’re right. It’s just that it adds to all of the other things. I wouldn’t have said anything if it were the only thing. And what annoys me is: It’s been that way for as long as I can think. And I think it’s been pretty good that way. So why now change things that have been an excellent choice and have worked well for decades?
And now I can’t ridicule the Gnome people any more.
I’d be happy to change my mind if someone gave me one argument in support of a double-click. Except for ‘I only know windows and don’t know any better’.
Well, I’m exaggerating a bit. I think I’m going to be okay. I’ll just change the settings to how I like them. And maybe try Sway or something like that.
And now I can’t ridicule the Gnome people any more
Then maybe stop ridiculing people at all? Seems like a waste of effort for basically no payout.
Signed,
A long time Gnome user
I’m a Gnome user where double click is default, but this is a really terrible decision. It shouldn’t be default in Gnome either. Who cares how it is in Windows, Windows is bad.
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Because they wouldn’t have made this change if it wasn’t the default in Windows.
The unfortunate reality is that development testing prioritises the default settings. How long until bugs start appearing for those of us who prefer the single click current default.
