From kde-usability Mon Jul 05 11:21:16 2004 From: Art Carney Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 11:21:16 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Proposal to change mouse click handling Message-Id: <200407050621.16332.greencarrots () nospammail ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=108902649816434 As everyone on this list knows, KDE follows the superior HIG standard of single-click consistently in every application. However, as everyone also knows, after flirting with single-click in Win98/NT 4, Microsoft reverted back to the rsi creating double-click. This shouldn't be a problem for users except that many of them have grown so accustomed to double-clicking (thanks to bad precedents in the Mac and Windows worlds) that they do it everywhere. You've seen these people, they double-click on Web links, toolbar icons, etc. Most users eventually come to realize that a hand cursor indicates a single-click action but until that day comes (if it ever does) most of them double-click a few times until they learn not to. To ease this learning experience, Windows includes an option in its mouse configuration panel that "deletes" extra clicks if the desktop is in single-click mode. In other words, it ignores a second click if it is inputted on an icon element. I propose that * Double-click deletion be added to kdelibs * That it be enabled by default if single-click is active * That it can be disabled through the mouse config box Not only will this ease the learning process for users, but it can also increase stability since some devices can hang if you try to mount them in rapid succession. Double-click deletion will also increase the perceived speed of the system since uneeded instances of a program will not be started if the user accidentally double-clicks an icon. _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability