Dolphin - Single or Double-click-mode?

[Caaarl]

Hello everyone,

I'd like to know whether you use the "single click to open files" or the "double click to open files" - mode in Dolphin (/your file-manager).
I myself use double-click because I find it more intuitive and I have a hard time marking files in single-mode (especially if I want to mark several files using Ctrl+Mouseclick).

Also: How exactly do you browse files and why do you use your method of navigating files? What advantages do you see in your way of navigating files?

Thanks for participating in this little poll of mine ^^
Oh and a merry Christmas (/Happy Holidays) and a happy new Year to everyone.

[whatthefunk]

Single click drives me crazy. Not quite sure what your questions about browsing flies mean...

[Rod J]

I use single click to open files in Dolphin ... but most of the time I use Krusader as my file manager and I have that set to single click to select files (double click to open).

Season's Greetings to one and all too!

[richb]

Single click. Double click wastes energy. As far as selecting files, easy enough with hover and clicking the + that appears in the upper left corner, or ctrl-click.

[life0riley]

Caaarl,
I use single click in Dolphin. If I want to select multiple files I left click in a blank area (not on a file) and drag up or down diagonally to select them.

I use more or less a standard method for naming file, content and date. I'll use Dolphin to navigate directly to the file if I know where it is. If I can't remember where I stored the file I right click the desktop, then left click Run Command to launch Krunner and type the name of the file there. This works very well as long as I stick to the naming convention.


richb,
I like your signature! I just noticed it.

[richb]

Thanks life0riley,

I use Dolphin's find command if I need to find a file. It is powerful searching by file name or word in the file.

[Caaarl]

Single click drives me crazy. Not quite sure what your questions about browsing flies mean...

It drives me crazy, too ^^
I just want to find out why the KDE-Team keeps single-click as standard.

And @all other repliers: I didnt expect that most would use single click. I always find myself struggling when it comes to selecting files (the + is just too small). So for me single-click uses far more energy ^^ (and gets me frustrated because I keep f**cking things up

[richb]

Not surprised single is more popular, as of this writing anyway. It just seesm more natural. of course double click is a Windows default and perhaps hard for some to get used to. The plus looks plenty big to me. But to each his own and it is easily changed.

[GreyGeek]

I use single click because I can no longer coordinate a double click due to involuntary hand tremors. I can reliably click once, but getting the second click in within the alloted time is getting harder and harder. Sometimes I get a second click even when I don't want one. Yes, getting old stinks.

BTW, Occam's Razor selects the choice which is the easiest, not necessarily the right one. Physics has painted itself into a dark corner following Occam's advice.

[richb]

BTW, Occam's Razor selects the choice which is the easiest, not necessarily the right one. Physics has painted itself into a dark corner following Occam's advice.

That is why I said consider it. I did not say always follow it. There are times when it is the best choice, others when it is not. As an engineer I know that well.

[SteveRiley]

Also: How exactly do you browse files and why do you use your method of navigating files? What advantages do you see in your way of navigating files?

I dump everything into one subdirectory and let Nepomuk have its way with my data. When I need something, I don't waste time navigating up and down an elegant carefully-crafted hierarchy, because (a) my brain doesn't work that way and (2) I'm lazy. So I just search!

[GreyGeek]

Wow, Steve, you've described my wife's purse exactly, except that she doesn't have a Nepomuk index running on it.
Some things have literally disappeared for ever in that bottomless pit!

[Buddlespit]

Single click. Single left click if I know what's going to happen, single right click if I don't or I want to rename or I want to delete or I want root actions, ect al.

[arist]

I use single click because I can no longer coordinate a double click due to involuntary hand tremors. I can reliably click once, but getting the second click in within the alloted time is getting harder and harder. Sometimes I get a second click even when I don't want one. Yes, getting old stinks.

I had to give up using a mouse for this reason, and even a trackball failed me after a few months. Now I'm happy with a touchpad. Have you tried one yet? My left hand doesn't tremble as much as my right, and even though I'm right-handed I adapted quickly to using the touchpad with my left.

Yes, single-click in Dolphin drives me crazy, but I still prefer it. I've learned to be careful when selecting a file.

[life0riley]

Thanks life0riley,

I use Dolphin's find command if I need to find a file. It is powerful searching by file name or word in the file.

I just tried searching by name or word in the file. This is powerful! I didn't realize I could do this.