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From: x@springer.Apple.COM (Steve Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Not impressed with MacX
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.110947@springer.Apple.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 90 19:09:47 GMT
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In article <9011290206.AA00343@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>,
mouse@LIGHTNING.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU writes:
|> I wouldn't simulate them.  I would have the X server provide a
pointer
|> device with only one button.  That's what you have, after all.
|> 
|> Kludges to support broken clients that blindly assume the presence
of
|> (at least) three buttons on the pointer device only ensure that said
|> broken clients don't get fixed.

We thought about this, briefly, very briefly. A quick poll of our field
convinced us that we we would never again sell an X product if we were
to adopt such an approach. The hard, ugly, X reality ( ;-) ) is dressed
with 3 buttons.
--
Steve Peters
X Project Leader
Apple Computer, Inc.
peters@apple.apple.com