[Usability] Double-click feedback in Gnome

["Aleve Sicofante" <asicofante gmail com>]

I'm just astonished that not a single developer has taken the time to
ask this question, so please don't consider this crossposting. No one
replied there and after a reasonable amount of time, I'm bringing the
question over here.

I'm either asking something very obvious or developers don't give a
damn about the issue.

You can find a longer explanation below, but here's the briefing:

Gnome does not provide feedback to make the user know a double-click
has been received and an action is being taken. This happens just too
many times. Clicking desktop folders keeps the user wondering and
repeating the action several times. While less frequently, it happens
as well inside Nautilus folders.

This is a 2003 bug that hasn't been resolved.

Do you guys know of any plans to do something about this?

Thanks for ANY reply.

I have an opened discussion on the issue at the Ubuntu forums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=861515

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Aleve Sicofante <asicofante gmail com>
Date: 2008/8/2
Subject: Re: Double-click feedback in Gnome
To: gnome-devel-list gnome org


Sorry to bump this. Please if this is not the right place to ask for a
solution to this, let me know which is.

Regards,

AS

2008/7/16 Aleve Sicofante <asicofante gmail com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm copying and pasting a post I made on Ubuntu forums.
>
> "I was searching the internet for a Gnome behaviour that bothers me a
> lot. It's about Gnome not providing feedback to make the user know a
> double-click has been received and an action is being taken. I found
> this:
>
> http://osdir.com/ml/gnome.nautilus/2.../msg00093.html
>
> Well, it's a 2003 post and its first reply says the following version
> of Nautilus would fix it.
>
> I haven't really researched any further (I decided to come here and
> just ask), but I can see my Gnome desktop doesn't provide any feedback
> when I double-click on my home folder or a document.
>
> Is there any fix for this? It's terribly annoying and my customers
> complaint loudly about it.
>
> Thanks for any help."
>
> (Please visit http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=861515 if you
> want to follow the discussion.)
>
> I really can't believe this isn't fixed yet. I'm contacting this list
> hoping I'm doing something wrong and I can get some advice, or else,
> asking the developers to do something about it ASAP because this is a
> serious usability issue.
>
> Thanks.
>
> AS
>
>
>
> _________________
>
> --
> Aleve Sicofante
>



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