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BG405 wrote: ⤴Thu Aug 30, 2018 2:55 pm
It's become second nature to you and anyone else who uses / prefers it. However, I ask what would happen if you sit a complete novice in front of a computer & see how intuitive "double-click" is then (without explaining it first) .. or someone who started out with & normally uses touch interfaces rather than mouse + KB. Not sure

Also, several people have mentioned one click to highlight, second to open. My question is, once a Desktop icon is highlighted, where's the menu to perform an action? I get that in many of these cases the desired default action is not "Open .." but that only makes sense in a filemanager window where you have action buttons to click on. It still doesn't make sense, at least to me, on the plain Desktop.

At least we all have a choice!

BG405 wrote: ⤴Thu Aug 30, 2018 2:55 pm ... My question is, once a Desktop icon is highlighted, where's the menu to perform an action? I get that in many of these cases the desired default action is not "Open .." but that only makes sense in a filemanager window where you have action buttons to click on. It still doesn't make sense, at least to me, on the plain Desktop.

kenetics wrote: ⤴Mon Aug 06, 2018 2:44 pm One click for me. My attention span isn't long enough for 2.

russellz wrote: ⤴Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:18 am Didn't Microsoft patent double click some years back? I won't use doulbe click as I don't want to pay MS royalties :wink:

carum carvi wrote: ⤴Sun Sep 02, 2018 11:34 am

russellz wrote: ⤴Fri Aug 31, 2018 11:18 am Didn't Microsoft patent double click some years back? I won't use doulbe click as I don't want to pay MS royalties

Now the heat is on. Russellz that is by far the best and funniest reason to never wanna double click that I have read so far. Hilarious.

lsemmens wrote: ⤴Sun Sep 02, 2018 11:23 pm IIRC Apple may have tried to Patent the WIMP despite the fact that it predates bits of fruit.

Apple v. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard
Main article: Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation

In 1988, after the introduction of Microsoft's Windows 2.0, Apple filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard alleging that Microsoft Windows and HP's NewWave violated Apple's copyrights in the Macintosh user interface. Cited, among other things, was the use of overlapping and resizable windows in Windows 2.0. The case was one of the "look and feel" copyright lawsuits of the 1980s. After several years in court, Apple's claims against Microsoft were dismissed, primarily due to a license John Sculley had negotiated with Bill Gates for Windows 1.0. The decision was upheld on appeal in 1994, but legal disputes on this topic were still ongoing until 1997, when the two companies came to a wide-ranging agreement that included Microsoft buying non-voting Apple stocks.[159][160]
Xerox v. Apple Computer

Xerox Corp. v. Apple Computer was a 1989 case where Xerox sued Apple over its graphical user interface (GUI) copyrights.[161] A federal district court dismissed Xerox's claims without addressing whether Apple's GUI infringed Xerox's.[162][163]

from here

dougy wrote: ⤴Thu Sep 13, 2018 10:33 pm How do you set it in Mint?

BG405 wrote: ⤴Fri Sep 14, 2018 9:54 am

dougy wrote: ⤴Thu Sep 13, 2018 10:33 pm How do you set it in Mint?

In Cinnamon, open Nemo then select Preferences from the menu, then under the Behavior tab, select the single-click option. If you're not using Cinnamon (or if the menu bar is hidden in Nemo, it might be by default) let us know.

dougy wrote: ⤴Fri Sep 14, 2018 5:00 pm Ah, much better!