[ge-talk] Mouseclick options

[Meanwhile -]

Hi Niklas,

> 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'. 

Let me also chime in here and repeat that my idea isn't to change it, 
but to offer an alternative to it. Since you've reacted to Kevin Field while at the same time using elements from my original message, I felt the need to react.

> 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)

I'm more concerned about how some peoples' muscles interpret it.

> , 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. 

As you could have concluded from my mail to Stephan, I do (of course) select files...by dragging. That method works better for me: it surely is less RSI-inducing than double clicking to launch. 

> Double clicking works,

Just like 'single-as-doubleclicking' works for others.

> 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, 

I never mentioned nor represented (completely) new computer users though.

> just but would be confusing
> and stress inducing for those of us who've actually used a computer
> before.

Again, that's a non-issue when two both methods of clicking are offered.

  
> Much conservative love,
> Niklas:)


-Meanwhile




 
> 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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