I’m actually kinda suspicious any Linux user would actually want a single click default.
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Honestly I just love that Plasma closely resembles the Windows 10/11 UI. Not that I like Windows, but because I have to deal with Windows from time to time.
Switching between Gnome UI and Windows 10/11 UI requires an effort to me. Switching betweek Plasma and Windows - almost no difference.
Plasma is fucking great!
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Shame that they gave in to the haters, single click is great. Far more intuitive too, as you'd immediately tell if you ever had to guide your parents around a computer constantly reminding them in which arbitrary situation you're meant to double click and in which to single click.
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They can change the default settings as long as they leave the option to change it available.
I think it's great. I think it's impossible to use dolphin with single click since it goes into folders or starts files when clicking on them once.
Anyone knows the historic reason for single click? Plasma was inspired by some older system?
I could definitely be remembering wrong, but if I remember correctly there was a TechOverTea video by Brodie Robertson featuring Nicco Loves Linux aka Niccolo Venerandi where this topic came up in which there was the mention of I think something to do with carpal tunnel, and a weird drag-to-select bug or something.
My memory is a little hazy here.
Use the terminal mostly anyway, but navigating deeply nested folders when you have to double click is slightly annoying so I can see the appeal.
I don't see why they can't just have the folders behave differently.
Just make opening folders single click & executing/opening everything else double click.
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I think it was windows 98 that introduced "hovering on an item" = single click and single click = double click. Disabled by default of course
Oh god, I'd forgotten the dark days of windows UI introduced with the active desktop update
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Kinda disappointed actually. It's in my top ten best features if KDE. Single click is so much faster and easier. No other OS has gotten this right.
As long as they dont take it away. But since most people now won't know it's there they are unlikely to find out just how great it is.
It's great except when there's no "white space" to easily do a drag select. Or I'm just an idiot and do it wrong.
In Dolphin, there is a "+" icon in the top right corner on hover for selection.
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My problem with it: It was not consistent when using KDE:
In Dolpin, it's a single click.....
When downloading something in Firefox and choosing the location, it's a double click.
Firefox doesn't use the KDE file picker by default. You can set widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker to 1 to use the desktop environment's native picker.
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When I first switched to KDE, this issue took up roughly 15 seconds of my time as I saw what was happening and went exploring for the setting to change the behavior. Apart from having to change the setting again from time to time, I have spent exactly zero seconds thinking about it and exactly zero seconds wondering which approach was the "best" since then. I wonder how honest it is for this site to refer to a "debate"; it's hard for me to imagine anyone giving a shit beyond setting their own system up the way they like it.
I used kubuntu for an year on an old ProBook and I just assumed that the trackpad buttons were broken and sent a double click.
I discovered this issue only today lol
I mean, this is the Internet
Yes; my post is obliquely suggesting that people are ridiculous.
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I'm also always changing this first, so i agree with the change.
Um, I just switched from gnome to plasma about three or four months ago. I don't keep anything at all in my desktop I didn't realize that it was single click.
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Is this a change I'm too "command line" to care about?
Ah yes... I remember when IE 4 came to Windows and introduced single clicking. What a terrible idea.
Don't worry, apps are so slow that we don't risk repeating the same problem of double-clicking causing the first click to open the app and the second click to do something in the app that you didn't want to do.
Single click was always the first setting I changed.
As someone who hasn't touched KDE in years, can someone fill me in: How did you previously select a folder without opening it?
If you have a list, click on the item to open, click next to it to select.
Drag a selection box around it, or use ctrl. Or right click.
Control + Left click
There's a symbol at the top left of the file or directory icon to select the item rather than open. It's stays there even if you have double click to open
- click it
- as it instantly opens you realise you didn't change that setting yet and go change it
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