Comment 14 for bug 48671

Cody, I don't think it's a case of "we don't know the solution", but rather giving the users savvy enough the option to select what suits them best. I already said that for myself, I find it annoying in KDE and Windows (the single click after select for rename). When I'm renaming, I'm going for the keyboard almost always, so hitting F2 isn't that much extra work, in fact it's more deliberate going for F2 (or right click/edit -> rename). Too many times in KDE and Windows have I entered rename mode when I didn't want it, then it's a matter of pressing escape or clicking elsewere.

My suggestion was to enable rename on single click after select by default to bring the behaviour in line with other operating systems (obviously there's enough people wanting it this way, and the idea of these hundredpapercuts is for first-time user usability; chances are they came from Windows), but provide an option (not buried in GConf) for those of us who aren't used to, or don't like this behaviour. I myself think it's perfectly fine as it is (and has been for ages). In this respect I agree with some of the other comments about "Ubuntu is not Windows" and GNOME is not KDE, why should it aim to be the same, etc.