Re: File renaming

[Daniel Borgmann <daniel liebesgedichte net>]

I completely agree with this. It's not actually new though, AFAIK it's
already there since 2.0.0.
BTW, currently the middle mouse button is unused, can't we use this for
renaming? KDE has middle mouse button to open something in a new window
which is consistent with the webbrowser, but IMO renaming is something
that people want more often than open in new window. This could maybe
also be a preference (yes, I don't think it would be crack) so you can
choose weither middleclick should rename or open in new window.
Everything would be better than just doing nothing though. :)

- Daniel


On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 17:50, Steve Fox wrote:
> I was shocked today to find that Nautilus (I'm using 2.0.3) now supports
> renaming of files by delayed clicking on the file like Windows does when
> in "View as List" mode. 
> 
> This is one of the biggest design flaws in Windows. Why is it being
> copied here? I remember this being discussed on the list some time ago,
> but I thought the consensus was to have people use F2 or the rename
> option in the context menu?
> 
> Can this "feature" *please* be reverted in a future release? It makes it
> extremely difficult to use the list view unless you're a perfect mouse
> clicker. I would think this qualifies as an accessibility issue too.
>  
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> Steve Fox
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