Feedback on KDE Plasma 6 Default Settings: A Call for Reflection

[Tobias Leupold]

Am 04.12.24 um 09:21 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> I'd appreciate when people who write here speak for themselves and for
> themselves only unless authorized by others to vote for them.

I don't think anybody claims to be an elected representative of some
group here or being entitled to speak for someone else. Notice the title
of Lucy's initial message: "A call for reflection". I think the
intention was nothing more than wanting to make people reflect this
change, as the title says.

However, we do have this feature I personally consider outstanding,
making a difference, and above all being really convenient and handy
(@Konstantin: You did notice Dolphin's nice feature to also select a
file with a single click, without pressing a key, by clicking the "+"
icon that appears when you hover it? This is the "difference" and "know
how" I'm speaking of!).

If you don't enable it by default but mimic what the others do, new
users won't even notice this but keep doing what they always did. Thus
my proposal, acceding Lucy, to present this by default.

This, Martin, is only my very personal opinion, without any research,
prove or numbers. Any it may or may not represent a majority of our
users. I however don't think it would be very meaningful to do a survey
about this. A new user coming from Windows asked if he wants to select
files by single-clicking them and open them by double-clicking them will
of course state he wants to do it this way, because he always did.

But may the scholars argue about this.