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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: [kde] Double-click consistency in KDE
From:       Billie Erin Walsh <bilwalsh () swbell ! net>
Date:       2009-08-26 19:06:01
Message-ID: 4A958799.5090307 () swbell ! net
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On 08/26/2009 Peter Lewis wrote:
>  Sorry Kishore, it is the term "single-click" that I hate, I would
>  always
>  rather click once. Let us be honest, nobody ever says or writes "he
>  single-
>  blew the horn on his car". I regard "double-" prepended to click as
>  being a
>  modification of normal action which makes "single-" lexically
>  redundant. The
>  same holds true with "forward-" when appended to slash, totally
>  redundant.

Well, you can thank Microsoft for making it necessary to add 
"double-click" and "single-click" to our daily language.


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