Closing a window with sys-menu / dblclick

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:14:19PM -0400, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> This was a question I was about to post. Why doesn't double-clicking
> on the window's system menu close a window?

Inexperienced or not-so-well-coordinated users often double-click when
they mean to single-click (I see it all the time among Windows users).
Having double-click perform an irreversible action that's radically
different from that performed by single-click is a bad idea.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]