Comment 97 for bug 48671

Cody, you are right that it's more/new information, but you're wrong that it's "potentially a lot" -- users would only need to learn once that they must click first on the icon, then on the label to activate rename. It's a very small new piece of information that may or may not be easy to learn, but once learned can be applied in thousands of cases.

I still think that the timing could be done right so that this ordering is not required, it was just a suggestion to try to prove to participants in this discussion that there are other ways to allow click-to-rename besides the way Windows does it. I will repeat myself: click-to-rename functionality does not necessarily need to behave poorly as it does in Windows, there are different ways we can achieve this functionality and make users happy if we're a bit more creative with our thinking.