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Bug 97486 - In single click mode, underlining items is irritating
In single click mode, underlining items is irritating
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.1.x
Other other
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 47827 91584 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-11-02 15:42 UTC by Andrew Sobala
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Remove single-click-mode icon underlining, show hand-cursor instead. (3.39 KB, patch)
2002-11-02 21:17 UTC, Jan Arne Petersen 		none Details | Review

Description Andrew Sobala 2002-11-02 15:42:58 UTC 
It's irritating behaviour to underline a moused-over item when in single
click mode. It is quite obvious the item is moused-over because it lights
up; the underlining in contrast is a bit "In your face."

I recommend disabling the underlining by default and making a gconf-pref to
enable it; at least allow power users to turn it off even if you want to
keep the default as underlining.
Comment 1 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-11-02 15:56:47 UTC 
Might be an ok idea, especially considering that this behavior is
inconsistent between the list and icon views. Also the mouse pointer
could change to a hand when mouse over folders/files which might be an
even better visual que. I don't think we should have a preference
though, lets just make this work right.
Comment 2 Andrew Sobala 2002-11-02 16:18:34 UTC 
I don't think we should have a preference really, I was just lobbying
for "At least give _me_ a way to turn this off!" in case people liked
it as it is...
Comment 3 Jan Arne Petersen 2002-11-02 21:17:04 UTC 
Created attachment 12000 [details] [review]
Remove single-click-mode icon underlining, show hand-cursor instead.
Comment 4 Andrew Sobala 2002-11-02 21:59:41 UTC 
Jan: please add the "PATCH" keyword whenever you add a patch to
bugzilla. Thanks!
Comment 5 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-11-03 11:48:58 UTC 
*** Bug 91584 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-11-03 11:49:56 UTC 
Calum had this to say in the duped bug:

Well I've always hated single-click mode so I'm not going to get
involved in this too much :)  But I agree that we should use the
hyperlink cursor whenever the mouse is over any icon that will be
activated by a single click.
Comment 7 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-11-03 11:56:22 UTC 
*** Bug 47827 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Jan Arne Petersen 2002-11-06 21:25:40 UTC 
Commited to CVS on 2002-11-06, marking FIXED.