Comment 80 for bug 48671

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Vish (vish) wrote :

@Jim: This is actually quite easy to trigger, if you use a laptop with a sensitive touchpad then you would find yourself accidentally tripping this bug!
In touchpads, *a touch [for movement] could sometimes trigger a single tap ,and activates rename* .

Features should not be based on: Windows/Apple do this so we do it. *A feature should actually bring some usability* .
Most people here are basing the claim since they have just gotten accustomed to the behavior. The other OS could just be wrong.

People are also forgetting that rename is /not an action which is done frequently/ , but in laptops this could be triggered very easily. So if you balance this issue for laptops this would be a bad move.

*This is not a papercut* , The discussion of this proposal needs to continue on the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list - not here.

>From: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug

"Feature and policy discussions (including suggestions to change defaults) should be discussed on the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list."

>Also, upstream has marked this as "Not a bug". And refused to implement this.

Further, I request the UX team to put more thought into this , there have been users from several user groups for and against this feature, and do more user testing similar to Bug #389176 , add this user testing along with file roller.

Quoting *Ivanka* from that bug report:
"Paper cuts are meant to be quick and easy to fix and certainly *shouldn't be provoking any controversy* ."

This report has certainly triggered a lot of response, a change is going to definitely be a regression for several users.