[Thunar-dev] Some ideas to improve usability

Oblio Oblio apa.chioara at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 11:47:46 CET 2006


> I think it should not be default in Thunar as well. Not because I simply
> don't like it (well, I don't) but because most users are used to
> double-click browsing in file managers.

For sloppy users (which are the majority, I admit I am one - just
don't want to focus on the mouse as if I'm playing Quake when I'm on
my desktop :P), single click is ANNOYING.
You end up starting a lot of apps my misclicking. And on older
hardware misclicking on two files: a HTML one and a .DOC is tragedy,
as those are usually opened with Firefox and OO.org.

Mouse "power-users" :) can change the behaviour later if they wish.
Maybe it's just me, but I know that most users come from a Windows
background, and single click is annoying.
That's why most file managers use double click.

Regards,
Oblio.



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