in OS 9 there used to be a wonderful utility called FinderPop that would pop up the control-click menu if you held down the mouse button long enough
Yes, and we all know what effect anything that builds on a delay has on the SPEED and feel of an OS...
On the contrary, I find FinderPop to be extremely intuitive. It doesn't make my thought process slow down or make my computer feel slow when the menu is invoked.
FinderPop takes about 1/4 to 1/2 second to pop up a contextual menu if you hold the mouse button down. To me, that provides a nice logical pause in the operation to denote that I'm not using the default behaviour of the OS, but rather I am about in invoke a contextual menu.
Sometimes a small delay can add a very useful quality & feel to the operation of a device. Good UI engineers know this - delays can be quite useful for denoting special information, operations, procedures, etc. In my mind, contextual menus are not part of my normal mode of operating a computer (whether Windows or Mac), and the small delay seems quite fitting.
Of course, you can still get around that delay by holding down control or using a programmable multi-button mouse that invokes the contextual menu with a click.
Peace, Drew --
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