I agree. If you start forcing methods of doing things onto users, then it is
just M$ all over again. The key to Linux is choice. I don't want a
Stalin/Hitler/Ze Dong/Gates telling me what to do! I personally hate single
clicks. I find that I can configure my window manager (Sawfish) to do funky
things with double-clicks, thus giving me much more functionality. If someone
else wants single-clicking, they can have it, but not at the expense of
others like myself.
Come to think of it, you *can* make Sawfish (and hence most of GNOME) to
accept single clicks. If David Raleigh Arnold had even bothered to look at
the Sawfish control centre, he would have noticed that this is very possible.
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 05:42, Mark Johnson wrote:
> huh? why would less options ever be favorable for a linux environment.
> It's all about user preference and flexible configurations.
>
> I don't think it's about shoulds and shouldn'ts, I can't imagine any moral
> reason why a user should be disallowed from activating double clicking, or
> for that matter why a user should be disallowed from activating single
> clicking.
>
> FYI, I asked for 6 button mouse for Christmas!
>
> (ps: is unix/linux the home of the three button mouse?)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Raleigh Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 3:06 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
>
>
> I guess I failed to make my point. There should be no double
> clicking at all. There should be group select and drag. There
> should be no nono nonono alt or ctl + mousebutton clicks ever.
> Only one mouse button, never two, should bring up a menu. We
> don't have this because the people at kde and gnome keep
> trying to be like windows instead of better.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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