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From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yet Another Entry In The 1.4 Wish List...
Keywords: RE: 1.4 Enhancement Wish List
Message-ID: <980@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 22:51:50 GMT
References: <504@morgoth.UUCP> <3453@amiga.UUCP> <505@morgoth.UUCP> <716@ibmpa.UUCP>
Reply-To: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <716@ibmpa.UUCP> ericm@ibmpa.UUCP (Eric Murray) writes:
>3.	Dispense with gadgets completely, and use keyboard qualifiers in 
>	combination with mouse button clicks (i.e. to move a window to the
>	front, hold the shift key & click the left mouse button on any
>	available portion of the window). 

DMouse does much of this, and could be extended to handle the rest.
This is The Amiga Way.

>       This is the system used by uwm under X.

Right.  The Amiga can do this with a clever program like DMouse.  X can't
emulate intuition, though, because it is totally undiciplined about mouse
buttons.  For example, you could write a window manager that put up all
right gadgets, and used them to drag and reshape windows (though the close
gadget would be pretty tricky).  But you couldn't make the right mouse
button pull down a menu, because applications may need the right mouse
button.  For example, xcalc can only be exited by clicking the "on" button
with the right mouse button.  It's like it didn't occur to them that
anyone would build a mouse with other than 3 buttons, and that different
people might want different interpretations of mouse button-modifier
key combinations.
-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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