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KDE Goes and Does It (Double-Click By Default, That Is) - OMG! Linux
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It makes file system navigation much faster and more pleasant imo, I'm definitely reverting this.
How do you select without executing?
There's a little + that you can click on the icons.
Or, you can use the keyboard arrows and spacebar.
Not sure if there's others.
Edit: Just found another one actually. Middle-clicking selects without opening.
This works better than the little + on the icons because the + behaves like a "ctrl-click."
CTRL + Click
personally, I don't like the plus icons (I'd prefer it if they were simple checkboxes), so any one of:
I've always used the little plus sign on icons. It's ingrained into my brain. I even did the same on windows before switching to Linux 6 years ago. Single click and the little check box on Windows.
Its funny, I single click in KDE since 3.X or when ever it was introduced. But I never really used the check boxes.
I haven't tried it but if it works the same as a mobile OS you long click to select. Single click to execute.
Edit: apparently that's not how it works. There is a checkbox on every icon that you have to click directly on the check box to select/unselect.
I wish a long click worked on desktop though...
Doubt you'll have to revert this. I don't think they switch you back to defaults when updating.