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>> 2. Pop up menus are much quicker in gnome than on windows
There's this mental task of locating the correct entry for "rename" on the long list. When finding F2 on keyboard, we also have to find and aim the correct key. For me, the method of click, wait a while, and then click again is the fastest of them. It's the most usable for me (and I believe many others).
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>> There are more chances for accidental clicks than for actual renaming.
To me this really sounds out of this world. Please at least don't state it like it's a fact. I'm a real user of Windows (and Linux). I use Windows everyday (Linux too FYI), I deal with file operations everyday in Windows. I have many gripes with Windows, I curse Windows often, but I never even thought consciously about "accidental click" on this matter until you people brought it up. Which means it practically just doesn't happen to me. And my family. And my friends in my country where Windows dominate...
>> Also , *one needs to remember that if other OS do it* ,
>> *it just doesnt become the right method and Ubuntu is not Windows /Apple* .
Please also remember that just because Windows uses it, it doesn't mean that the idea is automatically bad/evil.
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I'm really curious with people claiming that when they use a system with this feature, they activate the feature "accidentally" often. Here's the million dollar question: If clicking, pausing for a while, and clicking it again brings nothing on Gnome, why would you do it on the first place? All those comments make it seem that there is this obsessive compulsive behavior to make oneself sure that the file is selected by actually clicking it a second time. It will work on Gnome (because it does nothing!), but it causes trouble when they use a system with different behavior. If this is indeed true, why should us, who finds the feature useful, must cater to those with this habit? Just don't click the file for the second time for no reason (or yeah, let those who need the psychological satisfaction of clicking a second time set it on gconf).