Re: Click to rename...

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 09:06 +0100, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> 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 :)

It was (and still is) using F2.

> > >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.

I actually dislike this feature in macos. But then, I'm an uncurable
"clicker". I.E. i keep mousing around, selecting stuff and clicking
while idling.

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