When I'm teaching people how to use computers - I tell them to think of the right button as the 'menu button' (the word *context* is off-putting to many).
This drastically improves their ability to interact with the desktop and predict what behaviour is expected of them. It makes sense to them and it's consistent; left button to 'activate' things, right to 'operate'. They generally learn faster then as operations like copy / paste become discoverable. *(The only thing that catches them out is when to single-click and when to double-click, but explaining the difference between the file-manager, desktop, web-browser and toolbars etc comes later. )* Having a different menu for each button seems to fall between two lines of thinking and personally, I get caught out all the time by the current setup - I can't remember which button to click to get the menu I want because to me there is no sense to it. I can't make a distinction between the two menus without getting very anal and that's not a good thing for users in general I believe, assuming I'm not very alone of course.
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