Tom Jennings wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Daniel Barlow wrote: > >> PS: how does the play queue work? Does it require mouse buttons 2 or 3 (I'm >> using a single-button mouse on my media machine) because I can't see any way >> of getting tracks into it. > > I can't imagine trying to use linux with a one-button > mouse...
In more normal circumstances, nor can I. But that box sits next to the TV and does very little other than Mixxx and last.fm streaming. The imac mouse was just the only USB mouse I had spare at the time, and I had some vague recollection of someone-or-other's UI guidelines saying "do not write apps that depend on >1 button" so thought I'd be able to put up with the inconvenience of doing somethings in a slightly more ungainly fashion. Ah yes, it's the GNOME HIG http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/input.html "Do not depend on input from the middle or right mouse buttons. As well as being physically more difficult to click, some pointing devices and many assistive technology devices only support or emulate the left mouse button. Some assistive technologies may not even emulate the mouse at all, but generate keyboard events instead." I grant you that mixxx is not a GNOME app and the equivalent KDE guide is a bit less prescriptive (it says "Opens a popup menu (RMB-menu) with the most important actions available for the button/link", but it doesn't say explicitly that there should be any other way to select those options) but it's probably good general advice anyway. This was not a flame directed at mixxx devs, just a user-expectation calibration question. It may be worth bearing in mind for anyone hacking on UI stuff, but not a high priority > Mind you, I'm not advocating for these things, just observing > (my, others) pain. But I wish laptop trackpads came with a > middle button... Agree completely. Some IBM laptops do/did, but my last two laptops have both required too much precisely timed tapdancing to be entirely comfortable with context menus. (I usually bind the RH button to button 2 not 3 because at heart I'm a retro exterm/emacs guy and do more cut/paste than gui apps, but now we're way offtopic. Hey, let's talk some more about mail RFCs ;-) -dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
