Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: The Mouse -- What is its History? Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 90 15:10:15 GMT References: <21056@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1123@helens.Stanford.EDU> <9028@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1990Oct11.174840.21598@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 20 In-reply-to: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 11 Oct 90 17:48:40 GMT Everyone is talking about multiple buttons on the mouse being used for double clicking and/or shift clicking. Using multiple buttons for double and triple clicking is a waste of bandwidth. I find the biggest advantage of a multiple button mouse is the ability to (in Mac terms) bring the menu bar underneath the mouse. I don't have to keep moving the mouse up to the top menu bar and back down again. The people with 20 inch monitors know this. Having several monitors must be a real pain. I bought and use PowerMenus, which does bring the menubar under the current mouse position. I would *love* to have another button on the mouse do this, so I wouldn't need two hands. Watch that Mouse Odometer drop! Save unnecessary pixel paths! Avoid TCS! Excuse me while I duck. Here come the Though Police. :-) -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett