GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 129688
Click number to execute command desktop integration
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
My nautilus takes single click to activate any program, but mailcheck starts evolution only on double-click. I propose checking nautilus gconf key to use single or double click (default) to activate command.
Created attachment 22568 [details] [review] Proposed patch
Hrm... probably this should be consistent across all applets that have a pop-up behavior, no?
Well, I think, I can propose a patch for system monitor applet. What other applets need's to be patched?
We need to first have a usability recomendation for applet behavior. Calum is working on it at the moment I think.
Agree, but it would be nice to see it in 2.6.
*** Bug 135465 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
cc'ing myself so I can think about this a bit :) Haven't really got very far yet with that proposal I was meant to be writing up, bah :/
Hmm, well, in general I'm in favour of moving to single click for everything on the panel... I'm not really convinced that it should be dependent on the Nautilus preference though. Even though most people will continue to use the default double-click style for nautilus, it seems kind of unnecessary to make them double-click panel objects as well, while single click is sitting around doing nothing. The main danger is that people used to double-clicking might then open two instances of something-or-other on the panel, but to be honest I'd consider that a bug against the something-or-other in most cases :)
I think i agree with calum on this. Most functions within panel are already single click anyway so it's nice and consistent with each other. How do we proceed here ? shall we fix this for 2.6 ?
> I'm not really convinced that it should be >dependent on the Nautilus preference though. It is not only Nautilus preferences, it can be viewed as common desktop preferences. Do we think about integration? >The main danger is that people used to double-clicking might then open >two instances of something-or-other on the panel, but to be honest I'd >consider that a bug against the something-or-other in most cases :) Well, if you want to be constistent, you should eliminate single click even in nautilus, everywere on desktop.
Based on: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/userinput.html#mouse-interaction-applets We're going for single click. Marking fixed. __ 2004-06-10 Dennis Smit <ds@nerds-incorporated.org> * mailcheck.c (exec_clicked_cmd): Open on single click instead of double based on: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/userinput.html#mouse-interaction-applets (mailcheck_properties_page): Removed references to double clicks. Instead just use 'clicked'. Fixes bug: #129688.