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From: nazgul@alfalfa.com (Information Junkie)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Botton events in motif 1.0
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Date: 13 May 91 21:04:47 GMT
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> We use a homebrew widget for the list of messages and can recognize a button 1
> press and release.  We manually manage (popup) the popup menu.  Unfortunately,
> Motif calls for the default button on a popup to be button 3.  We would
> like to use button 1 to limit the confusion factor for the poor user.

Seems to me that using button 1 will *increase* the confusion factor.  
Remember that the user isn't just using your application, they also are
using other applications - and if they all do popups on button 3 (ours
certainly does) then your application is going to cause confusion.  I
will agree that it isn't always intutitive to someone who's used to
a one button mouse, but as more and more applications get out there
things like this become more and more standard.

> at the top the popup it is confusing to the user.  Also, not all mice have
> three buttons.
The three button problem presumably has standard work arounds in the
Motif style guide.

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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.