On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:56:57 +0100, Marco Von Ballmoos <mvonbal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 even secondary click has largely been replaced by swipes and gestures. I *HATE* swipes and gestures. Back to on-topic fast. I have no idea why product updates that now support gestures also make them enabled by default. I'm a keyboard junk, and gestures don't work very well with all my trackballs. If I have to use the mouse, let it be as simple as possible: a big ball for movements, three buttons - for which the middle should paste and do nothing else - and a scrollwheel, so when my colleagues want to show me something they don't go crazy. The need to combine keys and buttons is stupid. And no, I do not have an Apple computer, and when I have to work on one (the company has two for graphic work), I bring my own mouse. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.12 and porting perl5.13.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.3 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
