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Re: [trinity-devel] kcontrol -> Hardware -> Mouse -> General -> Double-click to open files and folders (default?? Widows?)

From: Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:22:25 -0700 (PDT)
>   Do we really want a double-click mouse by default?
> I've never seen this as the default it kde -> took me a while to find it.
> 
>   Any thoughts?

Yeah, stop trying to convert the world. The savior complex has killed many people in history. :)

Single click is for geeks and Mac dweebs. The remainder of the populace is accustomed to double-click. That should be the default. I want people to use Trinity and that means dealing with some things that are status quo. After they use Trinity regularly they can learn about single click.

Change the defaults for your packages. I do.

In my build script, after the make and make install is complete, I perform housekeeping chores. I have a small template kdeglobals config file in my tdebase build directory:

[General]
XftAntialias=true
XftHintStyle=hintfull
XftSubPixel=rgb

[KDE]
DoubleClickInterval=700
SingleClick=false

Notice I change the double click interval to something sane. The default requires people to move their fingers faster than rabbits copulating.

In my build script I overwrite the default kdeglobals file with mine:

if [ ! -e $PKG${PREFIX}/share/config/kdeglobals ]; then
  cat $CWD/config/kdeglobals > $PKG${PREFIX}/share/config/kdeglobals
  chmod 644 $PKG${PREFIX}/share/config/kdeglobals
...

Just one example. :)

Darrell