Comment 79 for bug 48671

To Jim:

I should stop providing non-exhaustive lists of examples, it never goes well. My point was that some people might not trigger this option accidentally as often, and so might not understand why this is so annoying to others. To provide a more concrete example, Java's Swing UI implements this renaming method, and I constantly (roughly every other double-click) trip this accidentally when trying to navigate Swing file selection dialogues. The tiny icon in list view is too small a target, and even then, that sometimes trips the rename option. Slightly too slow on the double-click, I guess.

To put my point in more general terms, it seems that this "feature" has a high rate of false positives for a fair portion of users. It's not just me that thinks so, either, as evidenced by the many people who have spoken against this addition. This would go a long way towards explaining why there are those who are adamantly opposed to it, and those who don't seem to understand why it's such a big deal. At the very least, this addition should be *optional*.

Sad reasoning is when you attack my personal anecdote and ignore my general point -- that this may generate more false positives for some than for others -- in order to score points.