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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: The filedialog, please read
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-11-05 8:27:03
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On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> weis wrote:
> 
> > This proves something else:
> > The GUI if the dialog was so bad that the user did not find the switch
> > himslef :-)))
> > 
> > Sorry, could not resist :-)
> > 
> Sure, the icon is crap. But noone did something new ;(
> But what do you try to proove? Would you add a fat label 
> "switch to single click here"?

It shouldn't use double click as default in the first place.
In the control center you can add a switch "use double click".
And then all of KDE will use double clicks.

Using double clicks in a file dialog only is inconsistent and deserves a
place in the user interface hall of shame.

Cheers,
Waldo

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