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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Not impressed with MacX
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Date: 4 Dec 90 10:26:45 GMT
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[ MacX, one-button mice, and faking "missing" buttons ]

> ... attempt to accomodate the "lowest common denominator" ...

> Where do you draw the line?  Motif tries to handle the case on
> configurations with no mice at all.  Do you propose that all
> non-Motif applications which assume that there is a mouse "fix"
> themselves so that they no longer do?

No.  X has always promised the existence of a pointer device.  It has
never promised the existence of at least three buttons on the pointer.
(I am not sure whether it promises the existence of any buttons.)  IMO,
Motif goes overboard if it tries to accommodate servers with no pointer
device.

					der Mouse

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