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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. -- Michael G Schwern schwern@xxxxx.xxx http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Please Captain, not in front of the Klingons.There's stuff above here
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