MX Linux Forum

JayM wrote: Thu Dec 05, 2019 3:14 am I had installed Plasma on MX-19 running in a VM this morning, then logged out and selected it as my default DE. It just now took me 15 minutes to find out where to disable single-clicking to open stuff. It's not an option within Dolphin anymore, it's a system-wide setting. What I wonder is, how do people who prefer single-clicks accomplish common tasks such as selecting multiple files?

richb wrote: Thu Dec 05, 2019 6:01 am The bottom line for me is that the review is very useful. Consider if Dedoimedo was a beta tester. The issues he raised would be evaluated by the devs and solutions pursued, Obviously it is a review on a release but the same process can be pursued. The general opinion of the devs that I gather from this thread is that they see this as another opportunity to make improvements not only in MX as released but in the release testing process as well.

Stevo wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2019 10:45 pm MX already has an unofficial KDE respin by Adrian--maybe we can do a little more work on it and do an official version, at least for 64-bit?

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