• 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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          9 months ago

          Which is just another, less convenient way of turning a single click into two, no?

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            9 months ago

            You’re not running executables from a file manager very often with Linux

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            9 months ago

            no, because it only applies to executables.

            idk about you, but I only run executables from dolphin once every full moon, or so. And even if it was frequently, it doesn’t come close to the number of folders I open that only need a single click.

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              9 months ago

              I guess it depends on habits, then. I use them all the time. Not as much as folders, but enough that I would rather the 2 have the same behavior.

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                9 months ago

                Right. I use a proper launcher for anything I execute constantly - like Gnome shell or KRunner on KDE. Scripts I usually run in the terminal to see their output. So it’s really rare for me to run anything by clicking on it using Dolphin.

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        9 months ago

        I’d be okay with a compromise like single click for folders, double click for files

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          9 months ago

          That’s inconsistent though and possibly worse than either other option (but better than single click files double click folders at least, yeesh)

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        9 months ago

        It should throw up a prompt to ask, if you really want to run it. You might have disabled that…

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            9 months ago

            I appreciate the joke, but well, yes. The difference being that it’s only for executables and you need to do click-move-click rather than the usual double-click, so it’s even harder to accidentally trigger.

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              9 months ago

              That seems more like and accessibility feature, like what someone with a muscle spasm disorder would find helpful.

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                9 months ago

                I mean, yeah, muscle spasm disorder or my dumb ass absent-mindedly opening files in my download folder or Jester from HR, who doesn’t know that a job application shouldn’t have the executable icon. For all of us, it improves accessibility, because we don’t need to be as cautious anymore.

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                9 months ago

                It cuts in half the average number of clicks when navigating the file manager. Accessibility or not, it’s a welcome change imo.

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                  9 months ago

                  I think you’re not following along here. One click was the default, they’re changing it from that to two clicks by default.

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        9 months ago

        Joke’s on you, I run Nix, the program won’t even start unless I steam-run it

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      9 months ago

      Exactly. I never need to select a link on the web to do things like rename or move them, while I do that with files all the time

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        9 months ago

        Maybe the KDE devs were expecting you to do file management using the keyboard only. Or maybe they thought that linux users aren’t technical enough that they would ever consider organizing their files. Just dumb it all on the desktop and call it a day, amarite?