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Subject:    Re: [KDE Usability] Review Request 123658: If double-click is on empty area, then invoke back.
From:       Leo Savernik <l.savernik () aon ! at>
Date:       2015-05-06 16:39:08
Message-ID: 201505061839.09448.l.savernik () aon ! at
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Am Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2015 schrieb Bjoern Balazs:
> > On Mai 6, 2015, 10:45 vorm., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
> > > -1
> > > 
> > > Please also add usability group for such reviews. I have never seen an
> > > application that does this nor would I consider that intuitive
> > > behavior. Also, many mice have dedicated back/forward buttons you can
> > > use.
> > 
> > Martin Klapetek wrote:
> >     I'm afraid I have to agree.
> >     
> >     What's your rationale behind adding this feature?
> > 
> > Ashish Bansal wrote:
> >     According to me, this improves the flow of the application as well as
> >     user experience. I can just double click on the empty area inside
> >     that folder and I'm in its parent directory. I don't have to move my
> >     mouse to upper-left corner or press keyboard key to go back. That's
> >     it :)
> >     
> >     Although this feature is not available in many applications, I only
> >     have used "Clover file manager" earlier in ms-windows which used to
> >     have this feature. Yesterday while checking bug list, I found one
> >     feature request regarding this feature and then it came to my mind.
> >     I tried to find that bug but I am unable to find it currently.
> 
> I do not know why we shouldn't allow this behaviour. It is not the only way
> to navigate, so discoverability or what users are used to is not that
> important. I actually find the behaviour quite intuitive (as soon as you
> learned it exists) - so I wouldn't see a Usability argument to say no to
> this patch.
> 

Well, the unsuspecting user can discover it easily by accident. Imagine a user 
doubleclicking a file icon in dolphin, missing it by 1px. Suddenly, instead of 
opening the double clicked file dolphin will present to the user a totally 
different directory. The user very likely won't even notice it's the parent 
directory, he will just perceive the result as unexplicable, annoying 
behaviour.

mfg
	Leo

> 
> - Bjoern
> 
> 
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> On Mai 6, 2015, 10:53 vorm., Ashish Bansal wrote:
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> > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123658/
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> > 
> > (Updated Mai 6, 2015, 10:53 vorm.)
> > 
> > 
> > Review request for Dolphin, KDE Usability and Emmanuel Pescosta.
> > 
> > 
> > Repository: dolphin
> > 
> > 
> > Description
> > -------
> > 
> > If mouse double click is done on the empty area, then invoke the go back
> > to previous directory in the history.
> > 
> > 
> > Diffs
> > -----
> > 
> >   src/kitemviews/kitemlistcontroller.h b8a93ed
> >   src/kitemviews/kitemlistcontroller.cpp 1c86ff0
> >   src/views/dolphinview.cpp d302358
> > 
> > Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123658/diff/
> > 
> > 
> > Testing
> > -------
> > 
> > Doesn't works sometimes.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Ashish Bansal

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