Both plasma and gnome will get zero clicks from me. They are the two black holes sucking free open source software into their m{ac,s}-win core.
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW. In the the next issue of Linux Magazine Torvalds talks about the new default in the single click behavior of Plasma: "KDE, fuck you"
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My parents found single-click much more intuitive, because everything else (web browser, phone) uses single-click.
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So be it. I don't understand why there is so much debate around such simple setting.
Same reason we debate how to pronounce GIF (it's pronounced gif, I'll have you know) or what toppings to put on pizza. Because it's entertaining for some, no matter how grating it may get for others.
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I could've sworn I already double click in Dolphin.
Some distributions that ship with KDE have that option set out of the box for you already.
That must be it then. I'm on Fedora 39 KDE Spin.
lol same here on F39 KDE. I was wondering "wait was that a setting i changed?" I haven't used KDE on another distro in a real long time
I'm a single click person, but I welcome this change. Those who like single click already know where to change it. This is good for new users.
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This + some other quirks are what have kept me off KDE for a good while. I understand wanting to do things differently, possibly easier -- but it's hard to break old habits.
So instead of changing to double click from the settings, you switched DEs?
It may mean the user doesn't think their use is similar enough to the people who make the distro/DE, or trust the distro makers' decision making ability.
If a distros' makers think snaps are a good idea, or that the distro shouldn't by default show available security updates, or have a UI that hides how many open instances there are of a program unless you hover over an icon, or hides the titles of those open programs, or hides panels; then the way I use a PC is too different from the way they do - and there are likely more things in the background that we disagree with which can't as easily be changed like UI settings.
What DE do you use?
Single click is for web page links, not my computer.
Way too easy to accidentally run a program with single click
I'd be okay with a compromise like single click for folders, double click for files
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It should throw up a prompt to ask, if you really want to run it. You might have disabled that...
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