- 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.
This is one of the first things I always tweak in KDE, so I love this change, but I’m curious how others feel.
I don’t know how requiring clocking twice instead of once is good
Avoids misclicks from opening stuff by mistake just for that alone is worth it to me.
I personally never accidentally open with 1 click, since it is engraved into my brain that 1click=open just like it is engraved that 2clicks=open for people who use double click
I meant misclicks like clicking by mistake, like you clicked the item while trying to click something else or simply clicking by mistake the physical button of the mouse… Maybe uncommon… true but when it happens that a folder or full app opens is annoying.
Oh, NixOS can’t open anything anyway
How do you select files? Probably double click?
No, there are those big plus signs appearing on the top-right corner of the icon, if you click there it selects instead of opening. I guess it’s a matter of habit, I can’t get used to it
Or you drag over the files. Or press something like Strg or Shift while clicking. I mean you have to do that anyways, even with double-click per default or you’d lose focus on the first file. And it’s rarely the case that you just want to focus a single file.
I have an extra button on my mouse that double clicks on press.
So I am extremely used to single clicking to see the extra info at the bottom. Aiming or dragging is extra work for me.
Ah okay, I can see that being useful. Seems we have a different workflow. I rarely look at that extra info at the bottom. Usually just to see how many files I selected and their total size. If I’m concerned with single files, I either don’t care for the size and extra info, or I switch to the list view and have it displayed next to each file if I’m organizing stuff. I’ll also sort them by size or whatever in that case. But I’m not concerned with the exact file info while doing regular stuff. So I wouldn’t use that use-case for a single-click very often.
I drag a box around them or Ctrl+click
Hover for 1 file selection, Ctrl+hover or Ctrl+click (better) for multiple files, or simply drag a box around items to select
That’s the windows behavior
However on kde, hover to select probably doesnt exist, and I use Ctrl+click anyway since hover to select wastes time
It’s more wear and tear on mouse buttons! It’s wasteful!