On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 18:12, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 05:39:40PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > You disabled the middle and right buttons, didn't you?
> > 
> > That's a total Microsoftism. UNIX workstations traditionally
> > use the middle button.
> 
> For what?  For pasting, maybe.  But not for point-n-click in apps.
> 
> Admittedly, I've been using only Linux since 1998, but prior to that
> I used X-Window a lot on SunOS and Solaris, and while I know some weird
> apps used middle click for certain procedures, it don't remember any
> paint apps using it for painting! <:^/

xpaint, installed right now on my debian-unstable box

PDF and Postscript viewers tend to demand the middle
button for panning. (not the KDE or GNOME ones)

> I just fired up TouchGraph GoogleBrowser, a Java applet that runs in a
> browser, and left click selects and drags things.  Right-click presents a
> pop-up context menu.  Seems just like Windows, Gnome, KDE, etc. to me! :^/

It's probably a Swing vs. AWT thing.

> I'm going to keep it the way it is now.  Sorry! :^)
> 
> (If you REALLY want, you can add a "--nomousebuttondistinction" switch,
> or something, to revert it to the old way ;) )

I just want an #ifdef WIN32, not an option.

I'll wait until the bug reports come in. Meanwhile, I'm going
to give up on the 3-year-old. There's just no way he's going
to be able to deal with this. He had enough trouble keeping
any mouse button under his fingers, never mind a particular one.


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