Comment 17 for bug 48671

Soliac wrote, "Would accidental renaming be much of a problem if only the label activated it? Do people use the text label for selecting/moving as much as the file icon?"

List display mode. I always set my file browsers to list view (in Windows, and Ubuntu both KDE and GNOME). The icon is rarely clicked, it's always the text I'm clicking on.

Soliac wrote, "I think that there is a parallel here with the single/double-click-to-open behaviour setting. Preferences -> Behaviour would be a good place for a click-selected-to-rename setting."

That gets me every time in K3B (what a brilliant app that is :D). Single clicking adds files to the project, but what happens when I want to select a range and drag it somewhere rather than add it? Drives me nuts. Same with the single click to open etc. Having these things in Preferences -> Behaviour would suit me fine. Again, could make the default the "standard" (or most widely used, in most cases it'll be "The Windows Way"), then provide the option for alternative behaviour. Then again, this could be endless, right? So, GNOME is not Windows, nor is it KDE, or OSX, or AmigaOS, or ... and all possible combinations there after.

I'll reiterate though. I don't see why clicking to rename is so important to implement when the functionality is on F2 (a known shortcut, even works in Windows!). If you're renaming, chances are _very_ high that you're going for the keyboard, so F2 is just as easy as clicking, no?