[Nautilus-list] Re: [gnome-love] Re: GNOME user environment brainstorming

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Luke Hutchison" <lukeh email com> writes: 
> So I believe that double-click should not go away--for us users who have no
> problem switching context--but that if when GNOME is installed the initial
> settings are set to "Beginner" or "New User" then the default should be
> single-click everywhere with middle-click and/or ctrl-click for multiple
> selection.

Except that user testing by the Nautilus crew revealed that people
found single-click confusing, despite them initially having the same
theoretical expectations that you do.

Nothing like empirical evidence, in the end.

Havoc