Don't forget about connection behavior.

Double-click on a connection places a movable vertex on the connection. 
Double-click on a vertex deletes it.  

Very intuitive once you realize it's there.  

Lee


> On Oct 24, 2016, at 8:21 AM, McDermott, Chris Kevin (MSDU - 
> STaTS/StorefrontRemote) <chris.mcderm...@hpe.com> wrote:
> 
> I like this, Matt.  It has often find myself double clicking to try to 
> configure, or view configuration.  It just seems natural.
> 
> 
> Chris McDermott
> 
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> 
> On 10/24/16, 9:50 AM, "Matt Burgess" <mattyb...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
>    +1 for avoiding confusion or changing existing behavior, but I think a
>    good compromise is to leave the Configure option on both context menus
>    (right-click, e.g.) and add the double-click behavior to the Processor
>    to open the configuration dialog. In that case, the default
>    (double-click) option for both Processors and Process Groups is no
>    longer "nothing" and "Enter Group" respectively; rather it is
>    conceptually something like "Drill-down". For PGs drill-down is Enter
>    Group, for Processors you can't drill down any further than the config
>    dialog, so that becomes the default action for double-click.
> 
>    Thoughts? Thanks,
>    Matt
> 
>    On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Pierre Villard
>    <pierre.villard...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yep, that's a good point and I agree we should avoid confusion with
>> different behaviors depending of the components.
>> 
>> Thanks Matt!
>> 
>> Pierre
>> 
>> 2016-10-24 13:44 GMT+02:00 Matt Gilman <matt.c.gil...@gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> Pierre,
>>> 
>>> Currently the double click action is used to enter a Process Group.
>>> There's been discussion in the past on this mailing about possibly using it
>>> to configure. My only hesitation there would be the inconsistency between
>>> action on the different components. Unless of course we also switch the
>>> action for entering a group. Then I start to worry about confusing the user
>>> with changing up the existing behavior too much.
>>> 
>>> Matt
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 24, 2016, at 7:39 AM, Pierre Villard <pierre.villard...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I was wondering if there is any reason why the double click action is not
>>>> used in the UI? I think this could be a nice shortcut to access
>>>> "Configure/View configuration" view from elements on the canvas.
>>> Thoughts?
>>>> 
>>>> Pierre
>>> 
> 
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