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Wishlist: single click behavior for desktop
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xfdesktop
Component:
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Description Jaap Karssenberg 2006-05-10 19:59:37 CEST
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060218 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060218 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Please add a option to the desktop to set it to single click opening of items. I use thunar and use single click there, having the desktop on double-click feels inconsistent. Especially when the dektop is in "show minimized applications" mode (which I really love) I would expect behavior like in the task bar where single click toggles show/hide application.

Reproducible: Always




running xfce 4.3-beta
Comment 1 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2006-05-10 20:16:38 CEST
This is probably worthwhile, but probably not going to happen.  xfdesktop's icon view is intended to be temporary since Thunar's will not be ready for xfce 4.4.  I would assume Benny has plans to implement single-click behavior for his desktop view.
Comment 2 Cody A.W. Somerville 2006-09-01 02:58:56 CEST
This bug has been reported down stream at: https://launchpad.net/products/xfwm4/+bug/48924
Comment 3 Cody A.W. Somerville 2006-09-01 03:01:56 CEST
(In reply to comment #2)
> This bug has been reported down stream at:
> https://launchpad.net/products/xfwm4/+bug/48924
> 

 Sorry, I meant this for bug #1546 but this feature was requested as well at the same address (though reported as a bug). It was moved to https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xfdesktop4/+bug/58415

Thank you and sorry for any confusion,

- Cody
Comment 4 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2009-03-21 18:42:58 CET
*** Bug 5134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Steve Dodier-Lazaro editbugs 2009-11-05 23:05:31 CET
What's the status on this bug, please?

With Xfconf, it would be rather easy to have the desktop using Thunar's settings for choosing between single and double click for users. Do you think it would be reasonable to do so?
Comment 6 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2009-11-06 00:05:02 CET
It has nothing to do with settings.  Xfdesktop's icon view just doesn't support single-click.  I personally don't really care about this feature, so it's pretty low on my priority list.

(Thunar doesn't even use xfconf, so the comparison is invalid for that reason alone.)
Comment 7 dr.klepp 2009-11-06 18:50:55 CET
I'd like to see this feature, too. That desktop-double-click-thing is quite disturbing.
Comment 8 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2009-11-06 20:20:03 CET
Please, no "me too" posts here.

Otherwise, patches welcome, of course.
Comment 9 Antoine Pitrou 2011-11-29 00:17:21 CET
Any idea when this will get fixed? I'm considering switching from GNOME to Xfce and this is an annoyance.
Comment 10 Eric Koegel editbugs 2012-01-06 12:22:59 CET
Created attachment 4082 
[PATCH] Single click option to open items on desktop.

This patch adds support to launch items from a single left click based on an xfconf property /desktop-icons/single-click.
Comment 11 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-01-15 20:03:57 CET
xfconf_init/xfconf_shutdown is not required and it is better to use a boolean stored in the icon_view->priv and binding to channel, instead of opening channel, look for prop, etc..
Comment 12 Eric Koegel editbugs 2012-01-16 14:35:17 CET
Created attachment 4104 
[PATCH] Single click option to open items on desktop.

Changed it to bind to the xfconf property rather than a check on every mouse click.
Comment 13 Eric Koegel editbugs 2012-01-20 13:35:45 CET
Created attachment 4113 
[PATCH] Single click option to open items on desktop.

This patch adds support to launch items from a single click based
on an xfconf property /desktop-icons/single-click. Also adds a
checkbox to xfdesktop-settings.
Comment 14 Lionel Le Folgoc 2012-01-24 20:17:42 CET
Created attachment 4127 
set cursor

You might want to change the cursor (to the "hand" cursor) when you hover a file in single click mode. This patch applied on top of yours seems to work fine (but I don't know if it's the correct way to do that, though ;-).
Comment 15 Eric Koegel editbugs 2012-02-11 10:56:58 CET
Created attachment 4183 
Single click option to open items on desktop + hand cursor on hover

Added your code as well. Since you provided a diff and not a git patch
I created a separate patch with both and gave you credit in the commit
log. Thanks!
Comment 16 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-02-19 17:25:59 CET
Not sure this is 100% correct, but let's push it and see. Much requested feature.

Bug #1797

Reported by:
Jaap Karssenberg
Reported on: 2006-05-10
Last modified on: 2012-03-07
Duplicates (1):
  • 5134 feature request: single click opens desktop icons

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Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail)
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