This was a week of huge changes and improvements, starting with our headliner! Yes it’s true, by default in Plasma 6, you’ll single-click to select files and folders, and double-click t…
  • Knusper@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    My parents found single-click behavior less confusing. It’s how everything works on their phones and in web browsers.

  • RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    How are you even supposed to select files and folders in single-click? The tiny little + box that’s very easy to miss?

    • Rhabuko@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      There is a + over the top left corner of the icon that you can click for selection without opening. Pretty easy to use if you get the hang of it.

      edit: Or you just click the right mouse button over the file you want to select.

  • Rhabuko@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Big mistake in my opinion. Coming from Windows, it took me only one day to get comfortable with single click and now I don’t want to miss it anymore.

    • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      I reckon they looked at their telemetry and chose the setting most people have which has the side effect of being more familiar to Windows refugees.

      • Rhabuko@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        I mean, their telemetry is opt in and in most distros you don’t even get asked if you want to help them with it. If anything, most people aren’t even aware that Telemetry exists, if they haven’t looked at the specific section in the settings menu.

        • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.mlOP
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          1 year ago

          I didn’t say it was a large sample size, but it’s all they have to base it on. Of course I could be completely wrong and the telemetry had nothing to do with it. But then, what’s the point of the telemetry?

          • Rhabuko@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            The sad truth is that telemetry is only unbiased when it is on by default and not opt-in (Not that I advocate for that). Don’t know where I read it, but last month I saw an article about how Gnomes opt-in telemetry data showed that Fedora is the number one distro for Gnome users and Ubuntu was somewhere between 3rd or 4th place. That’s obviously not true, but it was true for the people who activated the telemetry.

            But back to the topic. As long as the KDE devs give me the choice to keep single click selection, I don’t really care what the default is. A lot of people will never learn about it and miss out in my opinion, but whatever 🤷.