[ubuntu-uk] Lost again

[Robin Menneer]

On 2/22/07, Dean Sas <dean at deansas.org> wrote:
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> Robin Menneer wrote:
> > On 2/22/07, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> Robin,
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> >> Robin Menneer wrote:
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> >>>> I'm not sure if this is a complete description, but items on the desk
> >>>> top require a double click in a default Ubuntu set-up. Menus and
> stuff
> >>>> on the top and bottom panel need only a single click. Links in WEB
> >>>> browsers and mailers only need a single click. Files etc in the
> nautilus
> >>>> file browser need a double click.
> >>>>
> > Is the answer to configure nautilus so that everything is single
> > click? If so, how is it done and why isn't a single click set up as
> > default - inexpereinced imbeciles are only confused with the unknown
> > choice of one or two ?
> >
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> I consider myself an experienced user and I still use single-click and
> would prefer it to be default, it's  easier when using a laptop touchpad
> for one thing. I've noticed inexperienced users often either double
> clicking everything in sight - including the web or random clicking.
>
> The reason why we have double click by default, is apparently because
> inexperienced users apparently have trouble managing files (moving and
> deleting etc) in single click mode, often opening them when meaning to
> select them.
>
> Once nautilus is in single click mode, the only double click items are
> the open/save dialogues and the odd thing such as playing a selected
> music track in rhythmbox. The open/save dialogue annoys me greatly when
> I have to use it.


This clears things up muchly.  Trouble is that I don't take (nor want to
take) the trouible to distingush the open/save from the rest of the
commands.  Surely this is something the experts can  tweak for us imbeciles
?

dsas
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