Re: Click to rename...

[Mathieu Lacage <Mathieu Lacage sophia inria fr>]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 08:27 -0800, Gene Z. Ragan wrote:
>  On Thursday, November 30, 2006, at 03:18AM, "Alexander Larsson" <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> >On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 14:09 -0800, Gene Ragan wrote:
> >> I was surprised to find that Nautilus doesn't support click to rename, and that both the space key
> >> and return/enter open up the container.  Thoughts on this?  It took a while to fine tune this on Finder,
> >> but it works pretty well with few accidental edit sessions.
> >
> >Its an old UI decision that dates back to the time of eazel, or at least
> >darin. The general idea is that its very easy to accidentally rename
> >something when clicking around, and that is a data-loss because you
> >might not know that you renamed something or at least not know the
> >previous name.
> 
> OK. I remember the discussion now.  John and Darin talked about this quite 
> a bit.  I seem to recall that either hitting space or enter was the compromise
> that would enter edit mode.  I see that both of these keys now open the container,
> so either that feature had a short life and was removed, or was never checked in.

If memory serves me right, we used F3 in nautilus 1.0.x, like windows (I
am getting old now so, beware :)

> >I guess click to rename is more important on macs since they have only
> >one mouse button by default, so context menus are less commonly used.
> >
> 
> Yes, the context menu is nice, although I find it somewhat tiresome to have to right click,
> locate the rename command, move the mouse and select the menu item in order to rename.
> I think the click feature could be done right.  I can't think of one bug we had against Finder
> against the click to rename feature involving data loss, or even one bug about general usability.
> Now that I have said this, I am sure I will get hit be a deluge of bugs about it.

Yes, I think the click on rename thing was a good idea.

Mathieu
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