Single click is for web page links, not my computer.
Way too easy to accidentally run a program with single click
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
I'm a single click person, but I welcome this change. Those who like single click already know where to change it. This is good for new users.
It makes file system navigation much faster and more pleasant imo, I'm definitely reverting this.
How do you select without executing?
There's a little + that you can click on the icons.
Or, you can use the keyboard arrows and spacebar.
Not sure if there's others.
Edit: Just found another one actually. Middle-clicking selects without opening.
This works better than the little + on the icons because the + behaves like a "ctrl-click."
CTRL + Click
If it wasn't default, I likely would have never tried single click, which I prefer now.
Single click was always the first setting I changed.
I’m actually kinda suspicious any Linux user would actually want a single click default.
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.
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
I honestly forgot that single-click is the default behavior in Plasma. I set up new desktop environments so rarely, and this is such an infuriating default behavior that I change it immediately. Glad to hear this is changing.
Main reason is Distros reverting that anyways. It was always doubleclick on Kubuntu and Fedora KDE afaik
My parents found single-click much more intuitive, because everything else (web browser, phone) uses single-click.
My parents still double click everything on their mobile...
For all those single-click fans:
Saying "well kids use web stuff and Android and dont know what a single click is" is basically neglecting the use of a mouse. I love at least 3 buttons, hovering and fast clicks.
I don't use KDE but I suppose the click is detected on button release, not during the press. It should adress all these questions.
Q1: Select (see Q3) + F2
Q2: Same way as double-click people. A file only opens if I click, not when I press the mouse button and drag the file around.
Q3: I draw a small selection frame over it, or press the control key when clicking (I have the hand there any, especially if my next input will be Ctrl+C/X and Ctrl+V
Q4: I just do. Sometimes I relax by playing shooters with the "invert mouse" option turned on :D
I have never had a cell phone or smart phone in my life, single-click was the default when I switched to Linux, I gave it a try and I liked it.
The Year of Linux on the Desktop has finally come guys.
When I first switched to KDE, this issue took up roughly 15 seconds of my time as I saw what was happening and went exploring for the setting to change the behavior. Apart from having to change the setting again from time to time, I have spent exactly zero seconds thinking about it and exactly zero seconds wondering which approach was the "best" since then. I wonder how honest it is for this site to refer to a "debate"; it's hard for me to imagine anyone giving a shit beyond setting their own system up the way they like it.
I mean, this is the Internet
I used kubuntu for an year on an old ProBook and I just assumed that the trackpad buttons were broken and sent a double click.
I discovered this issue only today lol
I think it's great. I think it's impossible to use dolphin with single click since it goes into folders or starts files when clicking on them once.
Anyone knows the historic reason for single click? Plasma was inspired by some older system?
I think it was windows 98 that introduced "hovering on an item" = single click and single click = double click. Disabled by default of course
I've been using my install script for so long, I've forgotten that single click was the default. I guess that's at least one extra line I can remove.
A day of sorrow indeed... No, joking aside. I gather most people use double click anyway, so this is a good change for that reason. I've never really understood it myself (the primary function of the left click being "select" when everywhere else it's "open" or "go to this thing"?? Alien stuff).
I'm just glad KDE listens to it's users and adapts to them. Looking forward to the release!
They can change the default settings as long as they leave the option to change it available.
This is wholesome in a strange way.
I'm also always changing this first, so i agree with the change.
I personally also welcome this change, as I have changed that setting anyway and of those people I know, they also changed that behaviour immediately. But as long as you can change it and it isn't forced on you to only use one method, it's great.
Ah yes... I remember when IE 4 came to Windows and introduced single clicking. What a terrible idea.
So be it. I don't understand why there is so much debate around such simple setting.
Same reason we debate how to pronounce GIF (it's pronounced gif, I'll have you know) or what toppings to put on pizza. Because it's entertaining for some, no matter how grating it may get for others.
I could've sworn I already double click in Dolphin.
Some distributions that ship with KDE have that option set out of the box for you already.
As someone who hasn't touched KDE in years, can someone fill me in: How did you previously select a folder without opening it?
Drag a selection box around it, or use ctrl. Or right click.
My problem with it: It was not consistent when using KDE:
In Dolpin, it's a single click.....
When downloading something in Firefox and choosing the location, it's a double click.
Firefox doesn't use the KDE file picker by default. You can set widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker to 1 to use the desktop environment's native picker.
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