Rationale for double click and project view and can we bring back following the global setting?

[Matt Rogers]

On Friday 14 August 2009 10:30:39 am Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Matt Rogers <mattr at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Friday 14 August 2009 09:10:10 am Aleix Pol wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Matt Rogers <mattr at kde.org> wrote:
> > > > On Friday 14 August 2009 01:34:54 am Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > > On 13.08.09 20:52:26, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > > > > > I've noticed that at some recent build that KDevelop has switched
> > > > > > from
> > > > >
> > > > > Uhm, not really recent. I've changed that weeks ago.
> > > >
> > > > It's recent enough for those of us who don't update every day or even
> > > > every week. :P
> > > >
> > > > Don't assume that everybody updates every day.
> > > >
> > > > > > following the user's setting when it comes to double-click or
> >
> > single
> >
> > > > > > click in the project tool view, it only uses a double click.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What is the rationale for this and can we convert it back?
> > > > >
> > > > > We can if you find a way to work in a treeview that doesn't suck
> > > > > with single-click. The problem is selecting a single entry without
> > > > > opening it. This is needed because you can do other things with
> > > > > this selected entry, for example building or adding it to the
> > > > > buildset. With single-click this varies between major nuisance and
> > > > > doesn't work at all.
> > > >
> > > > You have a Ctrl key right? Just use that. Kopete uses a treeview for
> >
> > it's
> >
> > > > contact list and that works just fine for me and so far, we haven't
> > > > gotten a
> > > > lot of complaints from other people.
> > >
> > > I've heard many complaints on the huge context menu  that appears when
> >
> > you
> >
> > > rightclick there. It's something we're trying to avoid here.
> >
> > I never mentioned anything about a context menu. This is not about right
> > clicking. It's about not following the kde settings for single click vs
> > double
> > click.
> 
> I mentioned because the difference is that in the ProjectView we have some
> actions that depend on the state of the selection while in Kopete's contact
> list all the actions are inside the context menu or the single/double-click
> for the default action.
> 
> In the ProjectView we have the default action (open file) on the double
> click, the single click for selecting and the context menu for less
> important stuff.
> 

Except that it's not consistent with the global kde settings that I use 
everywhere else

Except that it's not even consistent within the same application.

I'm not a usability expert by any means, but the lack of consistency even 
within the same application is disturbing to me as a user as I have to context 
switch my brain (for lack of a better phrase) when switching between views in 
the same application.
-- 
Matt
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