Comment 93 for bug 48671

"Some say, if we implement this as it is in Windows it will not work well; others say, if we implement it a different way, new users will have trouble with the difference. This is missing the point -- users want click-to-rename because they find it more convenient and usable than the dialog-driven approach, not merely because they are used to the behavior on Windows."

What dialog-driven approach are you talking about though? Right now Nautilus supports in-place label editing. The only thing we're talking about is how to activate it.

And if you try to mitigate the problems in how it's done on Windows by introducing new rules like "click in the icon one time, then click in the label" and probably some rule about how much time is between clicks or something.. this is potentially a lot of new information for people to learn. Are we sure this is easier to discover and learn than a simple right click? What's the potential for collisions between this behavior and double-click-to-launch?

It seems like there's a lot of talk about what users want, but I hadn't heard that we have yet done any thorough user testing on this yet. It feels to me like we're proposing a solution to something that may not be a problem.