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In my opinion, this is a good approach. While the vast majority of PC users aren’t used to these settings, it’s great that those who prefer them still have the option to change them. This is especially positive because features like single-click to open or drag-and-drop by default aren’t used outside of KDE — in fact, the standard behavior across macOS, Windows, and most other desktop environments is different.
This is the same kind of thing that annoys me about macOS: they change things that worked fine for years and replace them with features no one asked for. For example, why is the scroll wheel inverted by default? And if you change it, the touchpad scrolling becomes inverted instead. Why do I need to hold Control and click just to perform a right-click? It’s a change that complicates things instead of improving them.
In my opinion, this is a good approach. While the vast majority of PC users aren’t used to these settings, it’s great that those who prefer them still have the option to change them. This is especially positive because features like single-click to open or drag-and-drop by default aren’t used outside of KDE — in fact, the standard behavior across macOS, Windows, and most other desktop environments is different.
This is the same kind of thing that annoys me about macOS: they change things that worked fine for years and replace them with features no one asked for. For example, why is the scroll wheel inverted by default? And if you change it, the touchpad scrolling becomes inverted instead. Why do I need to hold Control and click just to perform a right-click? It’s a change that complicates things instead of improving them.