Comment 127 for bug 48671

So roughly 90% of PC users can be ignored. And you wonder why Linux is
unable to gain popularity. And you say it's freedom when you decide how
others should think and act. You try to educate hardware manufacturers the
exact same way, this one of the reasons they don't care about Linux
support. And they are damn right, arrogant people in the Linux community do
not deserve it, they can do it on their own, the freedom is there to do so.
(MS showed the exact same arrogance with Win8 UI, the only difference is
they realised they screwed up badly.)
Just to add to your high reasoning. There aren't many people around who
rename files for a living, so time doesn't really matter in this case,
convenience does. Clicking again a second later is convenient, and then
selecting the position where you want to edit is convenient also. When you
have to rename a lot of files, you do a batch rename, not the F2 BS.
Activating renaming by accident happens once in a blue moon, to exit it all
you have to do is to do what you really wanted, inactivating the file item
or reactivating will cancel the renaming in Windows Explorer.

On 8 May 2013 10:45, Petko Ditchev <email address hidden> wrote:

> I agree that most times GNOME/Unity devs cut too much of the settings
> out , but in this case I don't think this is something important enough
> that it should go into the settings (it's out of the question for
> defaults - despite the fact that most people working with windows have
> gotten used to renaming this way - it's slow and you get into it by
> accident . It's just not that good from the get go ) Just get used to
> using F2 for renaming , because this is not really a Windows->Linux
> adaptation issue that someone is going to seriosly look into.
>
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> Title:
> Cannot rename by clicking on a file
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
> Confirmed
> Status in Nautilus:
> Confirmed
> Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> In Windows explorer, clicking a file and then clicking once more on
> the file name will enter "rename file" mode. Nautilus doesn't do this.
>
> Isn't it a useful feature to have?
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