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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some A3000UX Questions.
Message-ID: <1990Oct7.184813.6221@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Oct 90 18:48:13 GMT
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peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>> The Mac comes with a 1-button-mouse, and people don't seem to mind.

>How about getting rid of the double-click kludge that Apple invented to make
>up for the single-button mouse? That way you would have 3 buttons: SELECT
>(left), PERFORM (middle), and MENU (right). No user-interface hacking needed
>at all, and you could dump half the items in Prefs/Input.

  Actually, I find double click is a lot faster and easier than having to click
two alternate buttons with different fingers.  Maybe I'm just a bit 
uncoordinated but I suggest you try it yourself.
  The advantage I see with the double click is that you don't have to worry
about which button you clicked first (which is not the case if you're trying 
to click two buttons alternately with different fingers).

  Then again, it would probably make programming a bit easier (not having to
check for double clicks everywhere), but are we supposed to be making the 
programmer's life, or the user's life easier?

>-- 
>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
><peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.

Evan Torrie.
torrie@cs.stanford.edu