This was a week of huge changes and improvements, starting with our headliner! Yes it’s true, by default in Plasma 6, you’ll single-click to select files and folders, and double-click t…
Why though? It should increase the life expectancy of your mice and touchpads because it results in fewer clicks and the mechanical parts thereby don’t wear out so much.
Because no other OS or DE that I use does that and it’s not convenient to jump from one to another. As of the wear, I think it’s marginal. My main file manager is mc anyway.
Finally. Single click to open a file/directory is the first feature that I disable on a fresh system.
I personally much prefer single click but I guess as a default double click is good since it’s like that on most systems
Why though? It should increase the life expectancy of your mice and touchpads because it results in fewer clicks and the mechanical parts thereby don’t wear out so much.
Because no other OS or DE that I use does that and it’s not convenient to jump from one to another. As of the wear, I think it’s marginal. My main file manager is
mcanyway.The number of times I’ve accidentally opened files I didn’t want to with single click is obscene.
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The mouse wheel dies before anything else
boo this man