Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!news From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Minor Annoyances Message-ID: <1989Aug1.153230.28809@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 1 Aug 89 15:32:30 GMT References: <7189@microsoft.UUCP> <355@wet.UUCP> Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 29 In article <355@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes: >Now if NeXT only came up with a 3-button mouse option... I seem >to use the Alternate key a lot. It seems silly to have to keep >one hand on the keyboard because there's no middle button. I >suppose I could give up the menu button (grudgingly!). I have mixed feelings about this. I'm not stupid (at least *I* don't think so), but I had a tough time keeping track of three mouse buttons (I had such a mouse for about a year). On the other hand, I AM a bit annoyed at how difficult it is to scroll windows by the page. This is a VERY common thing to do, and to have to use the alternate key to do it is kind of annoying. Plus, I am DEFINITELY NOT willing to give up the menu button on the mouse. I do not like having the menu block in the upper left corner of the screen; screen space is much more valuable when it's rectangular. To my mind, the menu block effectively ruins the left inch (or more) of the screen, so I ALWAYS move it out of the way (to the lower left corner, over part of the black hole and off the screen). I guess I'd be happiest if the scroll bars were redesigned to make paging simpler. If that meant making absolute positioning harder, so be it; I think it's of marginal utility anyway, since it is hard to tell where to click in the bar to get to a desired point in the underlying view. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner IfUMust: (217) 244-1765