[ge-talk] Mouseclick options

[Niklas Nisbeth]

I'll just chime in here and say I think nothing at all is wrong with  
double clicking. Not once in the eighteen years since I got my first  
Mac have I looked at it and said 'you know, this concept is  
fundamentally flawed'. Click once to select, double click to  
activate. Double clicking is not clicking twice in my mind, really,  
it's a different maneuver (and is interpreted by the computer as  
such), so I think your analogy of ringing the doorbell twice is wrong.

What strikes me as odd though, is do you people never select files at  
all? By clicking on it, to perform and operation on it? How would  
this work? By dragging? Surely that's more RSI-inducing than double  
click to launch. Double clicking works, it's familiar, IMHO there's  
no pressing need to change it for something that might be better for  
a handful of completely new computer users, but would be confusing  
and stress inducing for those of us who've actually used a computer  
before.

Much conservative love,
Niklas:)

On Jul 10, 2007, at 5:15 AM, Kevin Field wrote:

>> I don't think the entire concept of a double-click should be removed.
>> For one thing, we shouldn't make developers have to go without it, or
>> worse, implement their own double-clicking mechanism if they need it.
>> It definitely needs to remain at the OS level for consistency. Plus
>> Tracker will need to be able to fall back on that (and I expect
>> double-clicking will be the default as well.)
>
> Why not?  If Tracker is the only place it's actually used, and it's  
> not
> needed there, why would other developers need it?  Consistency with
> what exactly?  Other OSes?
>
> Kev
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