Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Button Wars (Re: Can't resize windows?) Message-ID: <5235@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 19 Jul 90 13:43:29 GMT Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: Wavetables 'R' Us Lines: 28 In-reply-to: steve@uswmrg2.UUCP (Steve Martin) In article <1990Jul18.195357.18074@uswmrg2.UUCP>, steve@uswmrg2 (Steve Martin) writes: >I have used HP's >two button mouse, Sun's three button mouse and Apple's one button >mouse. The only time that I thought that the one button mouse was >less efficient was after several bottles of beer. The Mac user interface guidelines define things like shift-click and command-click. Having discrete buttons for these might have been nice. The big problem with X-windows and all the rest is not the fact that there's more than one button, but that fact that there's no convention for what the buttons do - every application uses them for something different. This is before we start considering ALT, shift, control, meta-cokebottle, ... Put it this way: could you see yourself using a Mac with a three button mouse: one big button, and two smaller ones labelled "shift" and "command"? Just a thought... >Steve Martin Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ Ich weiss jetzt was kein Engel weiss