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. _______________________________________________ Tuxpaint-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tux4kids.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxpaint-dev
