Apologies for the gratuitous flame. I do think that between Adam's somewhat unclear message and the way you read it, there was a misinterpretation.
On Tue Oct 29 21:14 -0800, David Walser wrote: > Well yes, but you're missing the grand point. > Double-click *itself* is stupid. What the KDE > developers have tried to do is minimize as much as > possible double-click being required, and that's a > wonderful goal. Why is double-click stupid? Is it simply because Microsoft and Apple do it? I'm not going to say that anything MS and Apple do is what we should automatically follow, but most newbies (which are the only people that this default affects, really) are coming from a Windows or Mac background, where I would suspect the majority are using double-click (afaik, Windows defaults to double-click and I don't seem to remember MacOS even having an easily accessible means of changing the clickedness). I admit that I'm much more used to double-click. My mother's Windows box is set to single-click. When I have to fix Windows after it does something braindead, it's even money that I'll single-click somewhere (say to check its properties) and activate that icon. That's something of an annoyance to me. I imagine that anybody more used to double-click would find that an annoyance. The question becomes, then, among new users (who are affected the most by this) are more of them single-click or double-click? For the reason stated above, I suspect more are double-click. Of course, however we choose to move, at least one journalist, in their review of Mandrake 9.1 will rant about "I've always used single-/double-click and those stupid people at Mandrake chose to default to double-/single-click." > > If any Linux UI (apart from Ice...) is emulating > > Windows, it's KDE. > > Well it's more underlying technical stuff Gnome is > modeling after Windows, but no, Ice and KDE are > certainly not Windows clones, nor are they trying to > be. KDE is trying to be a sensible graphical desktop > environment, taking ideas from everywhere and > innovating on its own, and Ice is simply trying to be > a non-resource intensive, but still usable (and > simple) window manager. What about Gnome's underlying structure is modelled after Windows? Mono doesn't count (as there are absolutely no plans to make Mono an underlying part of GNOME). -- Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Love lies in pools of questions. GPG Key Fingerprint: 354C 7A02 77C5 9EE7 8538 4E8D DCD9 B4B0 DC35 67CD Linux 2.4.19-16mdk 12:40:00 up 8 min, 5 users, load average: 0.11, 0.39, 0.26
