Re: [PATCH 2/2] regedit: Only allow value renaming via the Edit or Popup menus

[Ken Thomases]

Hi,

I personally dislike this proposed change.  I use click-to-rename values all the time and can't think of why that would be a problem.

-Ken

[PATCH 2/2] regedit: Only allow value renaming via the Edit or Popup menus

[Hugh McMaster]

On Thursday, 29 December 2016 1:10 AM, Ken Thomases wrote:
> I personally dislike this proposed change.  I use click-to-rename values all the time and can't think of why that would be a problem.

This behaviour isn't available in the Windows version of regedit, so that's my primary motivation for altering the renaming behaviour.

Personally, I just don't find the click to rename behaviour that useful. I guess that's because I'm so used to how the Windows version
behaves. In Wine, right-clicking on a value activates the pop-up menu. Left-clicking out of that menu on the same entry activates
renaming mode. I find that behaviour unexpected and annoying. But that's just me.

Thanks for the feedback.

Hugh

[PATCH 2/2] regedit: Only allow value renaming via the Edit or Popup menus

[Nikolay Sivov]

On 29.12.2016 13:23, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 December 2016 1:10 AM, Ken Thomases wrote:
> > I personally dislike this proposed change.  I use click-to-rename values all the time and can't think of why that would be a problem.
> > This behaviour isn't available in the Windows version of regedit, so that's my primary motivation for altering the renaming behaviour.
>
> Personally, I just don't find the click to rename behaviour that useful. I guess that's because I'm so used to how the Windows version
> behaves. In Wine, right-clicking on a value activates the pop-up menu. Left-clicking out of that menu on the same entry activates
> renaming mode. I find that behaviour unexpected and annoying. But that's just me.
> I agree with Ken, I find in-place value renaming useful. However, I see
> why disabling renaming for keys could be considered as improvement -
> TreeView is used for navigation most of the time, not for renaming.
> Accidental renaming definitely happened to me, and that what
> https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37458 is about.
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Hugh