From kde-usability Tue Aug 19 23:56:30 2003 From: "Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 23:56:30 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: KDE3 defaults X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=106133717709106 More. >Noooo, don't do that. It already annoys me to hell that doubleclicks on >toolbar buttons are silently discarded. So I can never go back two pages in >konqueror fast (without leaving the mouse and using the keycombo instead). > Wait. The double-click detection and discard should ONLY work in icons, not in buttons! It's reasonable usage to rapidly click a button twice! But it makes no sense on icons. >Kicker buttons do *not* swallow the second click, and I hope it stays that >way, because I sometimes start more than one instance of an app (say, two >konqueror browsers). > Me too. >In a single click environment, there is simply no notion of a double click, so >two clicks within a short period of time should be interpreted as exactly >that: two clicks within a short period of time which carry out the action >*twice*. > >I can only state this: Do not try to make the system act "smart" by >sacrifizing consistency. That's what we know and hate from Wind*ws. > I digress in that people get really really frustrated when they open OpenOffice twice (slow!) in a row and don't understand what they're doing wrong. But a balloon help in the systray telling the user to stop that would be a way to eliminate double-click detection. > >mfg > Leo > >_______________________________________________ >kde-usability mailing list >kde-usability@mail.kde.org >http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability > > _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability