On Thu, 2017-10-05 at 11:46 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > The change in single-click vs double-click in the GTK 3 file chooser > from commit fb0a13b7f070 ("file chooser: Allow activating without > double-click") causes more problems than it resolves. There have been > a lot of complaints about it: > > * The first item in a directory is selected by default, so a > double-click on it misbehaves. Specifically, if that item is a > directory, the first click enters the directory, and the second > click will apply to whatever is listed first in that directory > (which is also selected by default, so effect is immediate.) This > is unexpected and quite confusing. > * The ability to activate a selected file or directory with a single > click interacts badly with selection of multiple files. If you > start the selection with a file which was already selected, then > that file is immediately opened, before you have a chance to > complete your selection. > * This new behavior is inconsistent with Nautilus, GTK 2 applications > (which are sill many) or basically any other existing GUI toolkit. > Having incompatible behavior between applications is confusing for > the user. > * While a number of people are advocating the ban of double-click and > the use of single-click for everything to make computers easier to > use by non-tech-savvy people and people with limited abilities, > this change does not even achieve that. > > If the problem that this change was supposed to address is that > double-clicking fast is a challenge for some people, this issue > should be addressed at the desktop environment level, by > accessibility tools and/or mouse configuration. The GTK 3 file > chooser is way too high level and specialized to handle this. > > So the best thing to do is to revert this change. Ubuntu has already > done so, and SUSE is in the process of doing the same. > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758065 >
You are just bringing back the complaints about double-click. There is no winning here, and I will not support any simple reversal unless it comes along with a person who is willing to maintain the filechooser long-term, and field all the complaints from the 'its still not the same as nautilus' crowd. IMO the way forward for the file chooser in GTK+ is GtkFileChooserNative, making this entire mess somebody elses problem. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list