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KDE Goes and Does It (Double-Click By Default, That Is) - OMG! Linux (www.omglinux.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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KDE Plasma 6 will require users to double-click on files and folders to open them by default.
This change is controversial for those familiar with single-click behavior in KDE Plasma.
Click behavior in KDE Plasma 6 is configurable, allowing users to choose between single-click and double-click.

https://archive.ph/BseL3

This is one of the first things I always tweak in KDE, so I love this change, but I'm curious how others feel.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So instead of changing to double click from the settings, you switched DEs?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's not so crazy. Most people choose a DE for the defaults

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I'm sorry, but this to me, sounds insane and kind of lazy. You can't go to the settings and make a couple of changes???? People really can't do that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I can understand why someone don't want to use GNOME, because the defaults can suck for some people. And not everything is configurable. But KDE? Can be configured about anything imaginable. While I understand that not everyone want to go full in to learn everything, I still don't get the default setting for a simple switch like double/single mouse click is a big deal not to use the environment.

If you really like KDE and are used to it, then you won't change to something else just because the next update changes the default value (for new installations only BTW) of mouse click setting.