[Mageia-discuss] Single click or double click ?

[Renaud MICHEL]

On Wednesday 19 September 2012 at 01:43:41, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote :
> I notice that some applications, when one goes to File => Open, and gets
> the navigation window, a single clicks opens a directory (Libreoffice,
> Kwrite, Gwenview, Kaffeine,SMPlayer, Sigil, etc.); in other applications
>  (Archive Manager, Gimp, LibreCAD) I have to double-click on a directory
> to open it.
> 
> This in spite of having chosen "Single-click to open files and folders"
> in Tools => System Tools => System Settings => Input Devices => Mouse =>
> General.

But that setting is only for KDE (and maybe other qt apps).

> Is there a way to ensure all applications behave in the same way, and
> respect the choice of the user ?

You will need to configure the other toolkits that your applications are 
built on.
That means at least gtk+, but I don't know where it can be configured.

Cheers
-- 
Renaud Michel