Re: File renaming

[Soeren Sonnenburg <Soeren Sonnenburg first fraunhofer de>]

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 18:19, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
> 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. :)

I disagree. Renaming requires keyboard input anyway, so a KEYPRESS
should start a renaming session, not a mouse click.

What you do much more often is opening windows to hunt for files/dirs.

S.