"I'm not exactly sure how my comment is not as useful as the others just
because I have an opposing opinion."

Saying it's an "unbelievably stupid UI design" isn't in itself useful,
in my opinion.  There are other people who seem to say it's a good idea,
so if it just comes down to taking one person's word for it vs. another
then you and the people of the opposite opinion then we're right back
where we started.  It may not be a good UI design, but I think there are
ways of collecting data on this other than reading these type of
responses.

"And distinguishing between icon and label is not a good solution
because that makes the selection area too small to be useful (especially
in list and compact view) and you always end up clicking on the label
the second time anyway because this is big and easy to click and better
symbolizes the file you're trying to manipulate."

This is one reason why I'm suggesting that IF someone were to implement
this that the only clickable area should be the actual text, not the
empty area to the right of the text (whether that empty space is
technically part of the label or not).  In Windows it seems that the
entire cell area to the right of the icon is considered "the label", so
it's very easy to put it into rename mode even if you don't click on the
icon or the text.  These kind of differences may (or may not) make a
difference in your bad experiences on Windows in the past.

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Cannot rename by clicking on a file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/48671
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