Re: OS X Finder

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From: Michael G Schwern
Subject: Re: OS X Finder
Date: 05:58 on 14 Jan 2004
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:46:31AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> Whatever studies led to the single button mouse and all the resulting layers
> of magic combos were horribly horribly flawed. So long as you only do one
> thing, a single button is fine. As soon as you need to add options, a context
> menu beats the pants off any metakey/multibutton combos.

That's the thing.  Back when they did the studies (early 80s) there was just
click, double click and that's it.  The magic key combos came waaaaaaay
later.  Like > ten years later.  I don't think contextual menus were added
until OS 9.

So when the studies were done it made sense.  Now, though, it smacks a little
of slavish devotion.


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