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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH 2/2] regedit: Only allow value renaming via the Edit or Popup menus
From:       Nikolay Sivov <nsivov () codeweavers ! com>
Date:       2016-12-29 12:21:47
Message-ID: 846f6ade-4fed-f6ad-ed67-91a6fbd11d96 () codeweavers ! com
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On 29.12.2016 13:23, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 December 2016 1:10 AM, Ken Thomases wrote:
> > I personally dislike this proposed change.  I use click-to-rename values all the \
> > time and can't think of why that would be a problem.
> This behaviour isn't available in the Windows version of regedit, so that's my \
> primary motivation for altering the renaming behaviour. 
> Personally, I just don't find the click to rename behaviour that useful. I guess \
> that's because I'm so used to how the Windows version behaves. In Wine, \
> right-clicking on a value activates the pop-up menu. Left-clicking out of that menu \
> on the same entry activates renaming mode. I find that behaviour unexpected and \
> annoying. But that's just me.
I agree with Ken, I find in-place value renaming useful. However, I see
why disabling renaming for keys could be considered as improvement -
TreeView is used for navigation most of the time, not for renaming.
Accidental renaming definitely happened to me, and that what
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37458 is about.
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> Hugh
> 


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