KDE comes by default in single-click mode, where to open a file, you just click it once. I don't like that mode because I keep opening stuff by accident, so I always switch to the double-click mode.

However, with double click mode, a lot of things require double click where they really shouldn't (most notably systemsettings, but also a few plasmoids), and that becomes quite annoying.

So I was wondering, how many others use double-click mode?

Well I prefer single click, even though I agree it can be a bit of PITA from time to time, but I'm getting better in avoinding accidental click outside the "plus" area when I want to just select files.

Not used double click since I first discovered KDE in 2000

On previous kde version (I'm using kde since 1.0) I used double click, but the "single click to select and single click to open" introduced in kde 4 is just awesome! A real time saver.

When I switched from Windows to Linux I struggeled with the single click. Now I like it so I changed Windows to single click and it don't work right at all.

I prefer the double click, but it's behavior is very inconsistant. So I stick with single click. I wish there were ways to configure it better.

I'm a double clicker.

Maybe I'm just too careless/clumsy/ham-fisted but I tend to miss the selection marker too much.

single click

i got used to select files with the 'drag select' from kde 3

I'm using single-click mode, ever since I started using KDE... it was bit annoying at the beginning but now it's just faster.

Here another singe-click user
I once had to switch from double-click to single-click, because I was doing some testing for a Dolphin bug report of mine and since then, I never switched back

Single click in KDE, but this damn GTK dialogs are using 2 klicks . So i kinda use both of them

Single-clicker, is good once you've got used to the move from Windows. What's this "selection area" though? Is that KDE4 only, or is it in 3.5 too?

userinScotland wrote:What's this "selection area" though? Is that KDE4 only, or is it in 3.5 too?

When you put the pointer over an icon you can see a green "plus": clicking on it select the file/folder (the plus become a red "minus" to un-select it), clicking elsewhere open it.

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The only location I like double-click is within file browsers. Anywhere else single-click!