On Dec 21, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:26:24PM +0000, Peter Corlett wrote:
Macs support multi-button mice. A right-click is also known as "secondary
click", which gives a hint as to its importance. It's a power user feature.
One that I find useful, but not necessary to use the system, as it should
be.
As opposed to shift-click, alt-click, cloverleaf-click, all of which I
have been told by Mac enthusiasts are "intuitive". (And even Apple staff
spurned the one-button hockey-puck mice they came out with a few years
back.)
And thus we have arrived at a familiar place: the good old chestnut -- oft-repeated even today -- of how Apple tries to force its users to accept a mouse with only one button. I know that they shipped single-button mice for *years* and spurned multi-button variations, but multi-button mice have worked on the Mac for a long time as well.
As soon as Apple started shipping their own, I was asked by recent purchasers
how to turn *off* the secondary click. These same users are not complete
novices and prefer pressing a key to modify their mouse clicks. With the advent
of the touchpad, the notion of right-click or even secondary click has largely
been replaced by swipes and gestures.
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