Single click to open file in workspace
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Enhancement request.
Similar to single clicking on a file in document list panel to open it, can we do the same on folder as a workspace?
It would appear that in folder as a workspace, a person has to double click on the file to open it.
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@Joe-Bruns-0 said in Single click to open file in workspace:
Enhancement request.
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Similar to single clicking on a file in document list panel to open it, can we do the same on folder as a workspace? It would appear that in folder as a workspace, a person has to double click on the file to open it.
The two interfaces have a slightly different mindset, so, IMO, it would be a bad idea. In the Document List panel, you are dealing with files that are already open in Notepad++; in that mindset, then you’d want it to behave more like the tabbar, where a single click activates that already-open file. But in the Folder As Workspace (FaW) panel, the interface is much more like Windows Explorer: in Explorer and explorer-like interfaces, the user’s expectation is that single-clicking a file will select it, not launch it; and breaking that expectation in an explorer-like interface of the FaW panel will cause confusion on the part of many users, even though for some, it might be desired. If it were an option, I’d be okay with it; but unexpectedly forcing your preferred interface on everyone, especially on people who have been using Notpead++'s FaW for years (given how old the feature is, maybe even more than a decade) would be a bad experience for a large portion of the users.
