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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Help with double-click recognition.
Message-ID: <6564@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 17 Oct 89 16:15:56 GMT
References: <603@granite.dec.com> <1922@bacchus.dec.com> <1490@esquire.UUCP>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1490@esquire.UUCP> yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
> Isn't double-click commonly accepted enough
> that X servers should be able to reliably
> implement it? 

No. Double-click is a kludge foisted on the computing world by the
decision to put only one button on the Macintosh mouse.

Of course, the X people didn't help this situation any by their
blind refusal to dictate policy. As a result the three mouse buttons
don't mean anything, and you have people wanting to double-click.

On the Amiga, the two buttons have a meaning: "select" and "menu". A third
button, for "perform" would be nice, but the designers of the Amiga
user interface fell in with the Mac fad and hid "perform" in "double-
click-select". (that, and putting the ^&%^&%& menus at the top of the
&^*&^* screen... another Macintosh kludge designed to avoid adding
buttons) :-<
-- 
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-'
"That particular mistake will not be repeated.  There are plenty of        'U`
 mistakes left that have not yet been used." -- Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)