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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdeartwork/kwin-styles/cde
From:       Cristian Tibirna <tibirna () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-28 3:40:19
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On Tuesday, 27 August 2002 23:16, Karol Szwed wrote:
>
> It was agreed to make the double-click to close redundant for useability
> reasons. This was the only client left that didn't have this functionality
> removed, hence the change. If you really feel this is necessary, I'd
> suggest making it optional via a checkbox in the config module with the
> default being off for consistency with all other styles.

Well, I tend to agree here with one of the bug reporters, that argued, 
roughly, like this: CDE is a "compatibility mode" style, meant to reassure 
people moving from Solaris+dt/Irix+4dwm to KDE. CDE traditionally had the 
"double-click closes" behavior since many decades (I exaggerate) and a 
"migrator" that finds himself in KDE, double-clicks on the menu button and 
his window won't close, will instantly dislike KDE.

And if you sit and think about it, CDE is _so_ ugly, that it's a wonder there 
are people not willing to invest the whatever effort necessary to 
reaccomodate to KDE-HighColor, or Light v3, or B3 or Keramik. This means, 
these people have a hindsighted reason for not reaccomodating and might well 
be that the doubleclicking habit is part of this reason.

Thus, I'd say, for CDE, just let the double-click there (i.e. enabled by 
default), with no checkbox at all (KDE has big problems with 
over-configuritis already).

What do you think?

P.S. I know about the "second click passes through" bug. I never managed to 
catch it myself. Yet, I remember Matthias (or Lubos?) saying he fixed it 
once. What makes it resurfacing so often? I'm hurt by my incompetence here...

CT
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