KDE Plasma 6 will require users to double-click on files and folders to open them (by default; the setting is configurable). Controversial change? It
  • KDE Plasma 6 will require users to double-click on files and folders to open them by default.
  • This change is controversial for those familiar with single-click behavior in KDE Plasma.
  • Click behavior in KDE Plasma 6 is configurable, allowing users to choose between single-click and double-click.

https://archive.ph/BseL3

This is one of the first things I always tweak in KDE, so I love this change, but I’m curious how others feel.

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
    15·
    9 months ago

    I think it was windows 98 that introduced “hovering on an item” = single click and single click = double click. Disabled by default of course

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
      8·
      9 months ago

      Oh god, I’d forgotten the dark days of windows UI introduced with the active desktop update

    • DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      It was introduced by “Active Desktop”, which came with IE4. So if you installed IE4, you also got this on Windows 95.