[gnome-love] Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: GNOME user environment brainstorming

[Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis delfi lt>]

On 24 May 2001 23:31:51 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> John Kodis <kodis jagunet com> writes:
> > It's already possible to configure Nautilus to activate desktop icons
> > on a single click.  I much prefer this because of its simplicity and
> > because of its consistancy with panel icons, menu items, hyperlinks,
> > and most everything else.
> >
> > Requiring a double click might be reasonable if there were some common
> > action bound to a single click.  Lacking that, however, this default
> > seems poorly choosen.
>
> The rationale for double is presumably that you can select
> icons. e.g. I can select an icon, then shift-select others and perform
> some operation on them. Or I can select then hit the shortcut for
> Rename. etc.

In Windows, it is possible. If you hold mouse pointer over an icon for
some time (approx. half a second), it is selected. If you hold shift and
hold over some other icon, the range is selected. So, instead of
single-click, you just wait.

It was not very convenient on windows, maybe because of bad timeout, or
just because I like double-clicking.


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Gediminas Paulauskas
Kaunas, Lithuania