doner@aeroaero.org (John Doner) (07/21/90)
In article <BARNETT.90Jul20154917@grymoire.crd.ge.com>, barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes: |> > >Apple *knows* that a two-or-three button mouse provides a more efficient |> > >user interface. (An Apple employee told me this.) I am using a three-button mouse system as I write this---a Sun console running X windows. I see no advantages over a single button mouse. True, there are situations where you can use the left button to do one thing, the middle for another, and so on. Big deal. The same thing could have been accomplished by positioning the mouse over a suitable control visible on the screen, and then clicking a single button. Much of the time you have to move the mouse to a control area anyway, e.g., the window title bar. Modifier key-mouse button combinations suffer from some of the same problems that multi-button mice do---all this stuff lends itself to little secrets from the user, who must somehow guess which key to push or which button to press (I don't read manuals except as a last resort). John Doner doner@henri.ucsb.edu