- 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.
This is one of the first things I always tweak in KDE, so I love this change, but I’m curious how others feel.
Way too easy to accidentally run a program with single click
not really, just set to “always ask” or when opening an executable.
Which is just another, less convenient way of turning a single click into two, no?
no, because it only applies to executables.
idk about you, but I only run executables from dolphin once every full moon, or so. And even if it was frequently, it doesn’t come close to the number of folders I open that only need a single click.
I guess it depends on habits, then. I use them all the time. Not as much as folders, but enough that I would rather the 2 have the same behavior.
Right. I use a proper launcher for anything I execute constantly - like Gnome shell or KRunner on KDE. Scripts I usually run in the terminal to see their output. So it’s really rare for me to run anything by clicking on it using Dolphin.
I’d be okay with a compromise like single click for folders, double click for files
It should throw up a prompt to ask, if you really want to run it. You might have disabled that…
You mean… a prompt that needs a second click to run the program?
I appreciate the joke, but well, yes. The difference being that it’s only for executables and you need to do click-move-click rather than the usual double-click, so it’s even harder to accidentally trigger.
Yes, mine does that. Files open with one click, programs need confirmation.
That seems more like and accessibility feature, like what someone with a muscle spasm disorder would find helpful.
I mean, yeah, muscle spasm disorder or my dumb ass absent-mindedly opening files in my download folder or Jester from HR, who doesn’t know that a job application shouldn’t have the executable icon. For all of us, it improves accessibility, because we don’t need to be as cautious anymore.
Ransomware in Windows:
You need to allow macros to read this job application
Ransomware in Linux:
You need to run chmod +x application.ods.sh to read this job application
that reminds me of the albanian virus
It cuts in half the average number of clicks when navigating the file manager. Accessibility or not, it’s a welcome change imo.
I think you’re not following along here. One click was the default, they’re changing it from that to two clicks by default.
I’m not referring to the default - (manually) changing it to a single click is a good thing.
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Joke’s on you, I run Nix, the program won’t even start unless I steam-run it
No it isn’t. It just doesn’t happen.