janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) (12/08/90)
In article <1563@pai.UUCP> erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson) writes:
[A discussion regarding systems that have fewer than three mouse buttons
and what to do about it, since so many X programs wrongly assume three
mouse (pointer) buttons are available...]
No offense, but I really don't care what's considered broken and what
isn't. What I worry about includes time and hassles. How much time and
This is the kind of attitude that gives us all more hassles. If the
writers of applications would stop to think about the possibility that
a user may have one-button, two-button, and three-button (or more)
mice, and make their application work properly in these cases, one
wouldn't have to worry about various work-arounds that may turn
otherwise-nicely-designed application interfaces into torture traps.
Doing it right, and knowing what *is* broken, saves us all some time.
Not that I have anything against vendors like H-P or Apple providing
ways of simulating three-button mice.
Bill
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