Fix UI behavior on macOS

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What I’m trying to

correct UI behavior when single click on macOS Obsidian opens file associated external application. That means, that every time I accidentally click a file, may be trying to move the file to different folder, it opens. This is fine for md files and pdf files, which open in Obsidian, but many files in Vault start external applications which may load for significant fraction of minute and take attention away from Obsidian. This behavior is different from macOS UI, where first click selects the file and double click opens associated application. This is what my fingers are used to. Current behavior is driving me nuts.

I tried

I have tried to find configuration option to have double click to open - at least as related to openning external applications. Chat GPT suggested originally, that such option exists. After some back on forth when I was unable to find named options, it suggested, that the option has been removed. No idea what to believe. But I cannot find how to change this, can someone help? I have version 1.10.6. 
What are my options? Is there plugin which would fix this?
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This is quite specific request so I doubt there are many exact solutions to your problem.

 

I tested Custom File Viewer community plugin with a custom mapping that uses some random path and it prevents single clicks in file browser.

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You can still right click and choose “open in default app”.

 

Generally if you want to achieve some functionality then find some related community plugin and ask the developer to implement such feature. In this case it would be a custom mapping that does nothing.

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This is great idea, it works. Thank you!

I did not realized that I could use plugin this way.

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It took me about 2 hours to change the custom file viewer to catch single click for defined extensions and enable double click. Well, it was mostly chatGPT. Thanks for the suggestion, I did not realize one can get this done this easily…