These are awesome changes. Thank goodness I have one less thing to change on any given install.
Plasma 6 is really shaping up to be quite a nice overhaul of the system.
Guess enough Windows users are coming over and they’re getting confused/frustrated by the old mouse click behavior.
Is this an historical thing? I was really confused when I started using KDE.
I don’t believe so. In KDE3 it was double click IIRC then it changed with the single click during the web mania UI when people suddenly wanted the big unification for everything: phones, fridges, tablets, supercomputers.
Like a lot of other people mention, this is the first thing I flip in plasma too. A mouse with a pointer is just different from a tactile interface.
In 2004, Microsoft was granted a patent on using a double-click on “limited resource computing devices”. As a result of this, some observers fear that any U.S. company which uses double-clicking may have to change their product not to use the technology, pay licensing fees to Microsoft, or give Microsoft access to intellectual property.
The unfortunate reality is that development testing prioritises the default settings. How long until bugs start appearing for those of us who prefer the single click current default.
That’s a weird take. Default caters for majority users in most cases, so ofc they would be prioritised as it should be.
The current default single click will no longer be default. Development testing tends to focus on the default settings. That means there is a higher risk of a bug slipping through to the users who choose to continue using single click. The situation is unfortunate for those who prefer single click. Not sure why that is a weird take?
Because you think you should be given priority when you know you’re in the minority that’s why. Was trying to be subtle about it but ig it didn’t come through. I do know how QA works and ik it should be focused for majority first from features to bug fixes. This little change isn’t gonna make a big difference anyway given how minor it is so I don’t see why this is so much of a concern.
