"Sean Kelly" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... >On Jan 26, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >> The Apple key is treated like the control key - You just have to remember >> that when you'd normally go for Control, on the Mac you'd do Apple >> instead. >> I don't remember what the hell the Mac's "Control" key is for. My Option >> key >> actually says "Alt" in addition to "Option" (no function key involved b/c >> this isn't a laptop), so...I think it behaves the same IIRCÂ…? > >"control" click on OSX is effectively right-click. Outside of the console, >that's about the only use for it, as far as I know.=
Heh, yea. That's something thing I always found funny: Apple always used to prepackage one-button mice with their right-click-capable OSX machines because "one-button mice are simpler and easier". But I never understood how "control-click" qualified as simpler or easier than "right-click". Even *my mom* isn't confused by existence of the right-button of her mouse, and she's the type of user who doesn't even know what a "web browser" is, *and* she doesn't even comprehend "double-click" (She calls it "two clicks" and doesn't know when to use "one click or two" - hell, she usually just double-clicks on almost everything). Even *she* isn't confused by second mouse button or the scroll wheel. And neither is my dad, and he's even *worse* than she is (as just one small example, he couldn't understand that he could use his *laptop* without it being plugged in. "It's a portable, dad, it has a battery. That's the whole point." Explaining it still didn't seem to help.)
