[plasmashell] [Bug 348960] Double click to open file/folders do not work with "icon" and "trash" plasmoids

[Menak Vishap]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348960

Menak Vishap <MenakVishap at yandex.ru> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Menak Vishap <MenakVishap at yandex.ru> ---
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #7)
> From usability team:
> 
> The only raison d'être for "double-click to open" is to be able to select on
> single click. If selecting is not possible (as is the case both in the panel
> and in a desktop containment), there is no reason for opening only on
> double-click (other than consistency with Windows, but an icon widget in a
> Desktop containment is not the same as an icon on the Windows desktop,
> because the Windows desktop behaves like our folderview containment, not
> like our desktop containment).
> 
> Thanks for the report anyway.

The ability of selection is NOT the only purpose of "double-click to open"
option. The main reason why it is necessary is that it prevents efficiently the
accidental launching of an application from Desktop. I do need this option
working for all objects located on my Desktop because I suppose that situation
when anything launches from my Desktop by single click has no right to
existence, and I suppose a lot of users would agree with me. Currently I use
only "Folder view" namely due to this reason. Unfortunately, using of the
Trashcan as a link instead of Trashcan widget is a bit inconvenient because its
icon does not indicate "empty/full" state, and there is a problem with its
positioning in the right lower corner. At the same time, the Trashcan widget
launches the Dolphin with a single click, that increases the probability of its
accidental launching significantly, and in my Celeron Core Duo 1600Hz it steals
several seconds from me. 
For panels it is not a problem because they are located at margins.
And your statement that "icon widget in a Desktop containment is not the same
as an icon on the Windows desktop, because the Windows desktop behaves like our
folderview containment" is not correct for the Trashcan because the Trashcan in
Windows has no aforementioned problems of Trashcan link in Plasma's Folder View
(absence of emptiness indication and problem with positioning in right lower
corner). 
So, the correct treatment of "double-click to open" option for widget
launchers, and first of all for the Trashcan widget is absolutely necessary for
Plasma, and its absence is the MOST irritating bug of Plasma 5 in its current
state.

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