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Originally Posted by kiwidude
chaley has given you the answer, set the tweak value to 'edit_cell', which is how Calibre 'used' to behave before it was changed a while ago. You are not alone, I hate the behaviour as it is now for the same reasons and set it to this value.
The issue as I debated with Kovid when the change was made is that the behaviour is not the same as other Windows applications, in that they require focus to be on the window before the single click takes effect. Try it in Windows explorer - to rename a file with a single click you have to first put focus in that pane and then single click on the filename. If you click on a format hyperlink in book details on the RHS and then back on the row of the book - dang, you start an edit. Also I am so used to clicking on another field in the same row to exit an edit without losing the selection - in Calibre this starts another edit. And because of so many single key integrated shortcuts like "E" it is way too easy to overwrite text as you accidentally try to open the edit dialog with it set this way imho.
The response from Kovid (who may understandably have been completely fed up with my nagging on the ticket at that point anyway!) was that it required changes to Qt to have behaviour otherwise. So I conceded defeat happily enough when he agreed to tweak support for the legacy edit_cell behaviour. Although how new users like it I have no idea - you are the first I have seen mention it on the forums so we must be in the minority  |
I love it
my tweak is set to none.
F2 press, gets me into a single-field edit which is
