[Digikam-devel] [Bug 111695] single click to open image editor is really annoying when tagging

[Jonathan Marten]

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------- Additional Comments From jjm keelhaul demon co uk  2005-08-29 16:55 -------
Regarding the question (comment #1) and the subsequent comments regarding the standard KDE single click action - I normally prefer single click in most cases, but it doesn't seem appropriate here.

Agree that there should be a single KDE standard, but only where it is a reasonable thing to do in the circumstances.  For Konqueror whether in its file manager or web browser mode it works, since the primary task of that application is opening files or following hyperlinks respectively - there is also a reasonable amount of blank space (in the icon view at least) allowing the selection to be easily cleared with a click outside.  But for an application such as digiKam which has an extensive set of operations that can be applied to a selected image (view/edit the image, view/edit tags/properties/comments, assign/remove tags, go on to select others...) there is not so much point having the single click do just one of these, especially at the cost of popping up an obtrusive new window *and* clearing the selection.

The patch referred in comment #4 helps, but not as much as the double-click option would do.

For another example of where it is not sensible to maintain the systemwide selection model in all cases, consider Windows XP's printing dialogue.  The list of printers has single click activation, but it's not what is normally needed: the user will usually want to first choose a printer and then set printing options before starting to print.  Unfortunately that's not the way it works - clicking on a printer in the list immediately starts printing on that printer, with the user having to remember to Ctrl-click the printer if wanting to select a new printer and set options before starting to print.  The single click model is completely wrong here.

I'll work on a patch (with configuration option) after I get back from holiday...