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From: mls@cbnewsm.att.com (mike.siemon)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Styleguide questions
Summary: mouse buttons in OPEN LOOK
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.132907.29461@cbnewsm.att.com>
Date: 14 Aug 90 13:29:07 GMT
References: <1990Aug11.161912.8235@swbatl.sbc.com> <9008131339.AA20488@osf.osf.org>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <9008131339.AA20488@osf.osf.org>, vania@osf.ORG (Vania Joloboff)
writes:

> 	OpenLook uses mouse buttons 1 for select, 2 to adjust, 3 for menus

Those are factory default settings, but users may reconfigure from the
workspace manager to suit their own tastes or hardwares (e.g. 1- and 2-
button rodents).   There is, as Vania delicately omitted to mention :-)
also an OPEN LOOK style guide, as well as a functional specification;
these are published by Addison Wesley.
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