An interesting behaviour in Lucid.....

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/15/2010 06:59 AM, andrew clarke wrote:
> On Thu 2010-04-15 22:45:01 UTC+1000, Basil Chupin (blchupin at iinet.net.au) wrote:
>
>    
>> ....which may also be the same in Karmic et alia but as I haven't run
>> them so I wouldn't know.
>>
>> Today I put some applications on the Desktop before transferring them to
>> the (top) Panel.
>>
>> When I tried to execute the apps. I had to *double-click* on the icon(s)
>> (while they were on the Desktop).
>>
>> However, when the apps. were sitting in the Panel, a *single-click*
>> would execute the selected program.
>>      
> I'm pretty sure this is standard behaviour in GNOME.  Single-click for
> panel icons, double-click for desktop icons.
>
> Also analogous to Microsoft Windows behaviour, single-click for
> taskbar icons in the quick launch bar, anyway, and double-click for
> desktop icons.
>
> And analogous to Apple's Mac OS X, single-click for icons in the Dock,
> and double-click for icons on the desktop.
>
>    
>> And I cannot see anywhere where there is the ability to set the choice
>> of using either a single- or a double-click to start a program. (I
>> always use a single click but I know of many people who prefer to
>> double-click to open the application.)
>>      
> Don't know.
>
>    
         My Lucid Alpha 1 had one click everywhere. It is now Beta 2 and 
it still is one click everywhere.

I prefer this, but got it by accident.

73 Karl


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