[ge-talk] Mouseclick options

[Ryan Leavengood]

On 7/9/07, Kevin Field <kev at brantaero.com> wrote:
>
> 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?

I don't have BeOS to test right now, but at least on my current Ubuntu
system, double-clicking is also used to select words in text. I think
power users use this a fair amount. Double clicking also selects all
the text in the Firefox address bar, and I believe combo boxes behave
like that on most OSes. This too is useful.

Gaim uses double clicking to open a new IM window. Of course I think
this could be changed to be single-click too, but that is the
developer's discretion, not the OS's.

Plus there are plenty of people who will prefer to double-click in
Tracker as well. So double-clicking won't be going away. I don't see
why you are so eager to get rid of it as long as you have a
single-click option. It isn't like we have to choose only one.

Ryan