Subject: Re: File Open: Okay, I'm an idiot!
From: James Silverton (jim.silverton@erols.com)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 22:29:53 CDT
Colin Mattoon wrote:
>
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, James Silverton wrote:
>
> > Colin Mattoon wrote:
> > >
> > > I guess I have become too used to Unix/Linux. It never ocurred to me to
> > > double click the desired directory under the "File Open" window. It should
> > > have been obvious, because Star Office requires double clicks for many of
> > > it's functions.
> > >
> > > So, the requirement to double click might be regarded as a characteristic
> > > rather than a bug.
> > >
> > > Sorry for the false alarm.
> > >
> > > Later,
> > >
> > > Colin Mattoon
> >
> > I don't really think it was a false alarm at all! Surely, a Unix program
> > should conform to Unix conventions and, IMHO, no knowledge of Star
> > Office should be assumed. If a special and unusual action is required I
> > think I should be told in advance.
>
> Well, I'm not sure which convention should apply:-) Like Star Office,
> Abiword runs on Win9x. I guess I would prefer to see it follow one
> convention or the other, because I DO find the need to double click some
> things, and to single click others, an irritant when using Star
> Office.
>
> If it were up for a vote, I'd vote to fix the File Open screen so that
> directory selection was just a single click like the other functions.
As I said, I don't feel very strongly about it but I would like to be
told in advance that a double click is necessary. I'll admit that I run
Linux on a dual boot machine and still use Word under W98 because it
does word processing tasks in the way that I want; addressing envelopes
is one. However, I chose the option to eliminate double clicking under
Windows as far as possible. The only place that I normally use double
clicks is Netscape. I'm not a Mac person at all.
Jim.
-- James V. Silverton Potomac, Maryland.
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