Re: Single-click mode for all Gnome apps

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen gmail com>]

On 14 May 2010 20:49, Calum Benson <calum benson oracle com> wrote:
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> On 14 May 2010, at 10:16, David Colven wrote:
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>> Why is it not possible to have 'single click where you normally double
>> click' as a setting as in Windows etc?  It does mean that hyperlinks or
>> desktop icon cannot be highlighted, but to rename icons for example one
>> would have to employ a right click menu.
>
> I'm sure it would be possible... however, it would most likely require changes in several gtk+ widgets, and in many GNOME applications both to ensure all functions were still available in single-click mode, and to work around any other side-effects it might cause.  So I'd imagine it's not a trivial piece of work.
>

Certainly not trivial, but possible and even necessary as displayed in
every other DE.


> That said, now is probably as good a time as any to get it on the GNOME 3.x agenda.  You might get more useful feedback on the feasibility of the work involved by raising it directly with the gtk developers over on gtk-devel-list gnome org 
>

Thanks, Calum, I will bring it up there.

Have a great weekend.


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