Single-click and auto-select

[David Faure]

On Thursday 27 May 2004 17:20, Leo Savernik wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 27 Mai 2004 16:22 schrieb David Faure:
> [...]
> > Speaking of which, I was wondering if, at the same time as defaulting to
> > single-click, we should also default to "auto select icon under mouse".
> [...]
> 
> I actually dislike autoselect quite a lot because it always autoselects an
> arbitrary item in completion lists when the mouse cursor is hovering above
> it, thus replacing whatever I'm currently typing.

Completion lists? I should have made it clearer that I was talking about
iconviews and listviews... Does the autoselect option affect completion popups too??

> It also tends to destroy carefully crafted selections of non-adjacent files if
> you don't pay attention.

Ah, that's a valid point I guess.

> So this is primarily a feature that is nice for a noob, but horrible for a
> power-user who already knows the keys how to get work done.

Possibly.

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