Mice Buttons [Re: Apple ]['s on the big screen]

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5n430j$iqc@login.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
Dave Althoff <dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us> wrote:
>Jeffery C McLean (felinoid@ccnet.com) wrote:
>: most everything on the Mac is done with the mouse...

>: Much easyer to use than the keyboard....
>: Personaly I like the one button mouse...  Easyer on the user..
>: No need to say "left button" or "right button"... you'll always find
>: someone so fearful of computers they can not tell left from right...

>As Apple put it in an earlier advertisement, it is extremely difficult to
>click the wrong mouse button on an Apple.  8-)

   Pfft. If mice were supposed to be x-y pointing devices with one
button, they'd have been designed for the elbow. I'm a normal human
with 5 digits on each hand, and they aren't there to take oxygen from
my blood. Good applications with a use for multiple buttons can
accomplish a lot more stuff faster, simply because you can do more
stuff at any one point. Even the early things recognized this-- with
one button, you can click, double click, click-drag, etc. As what
people want to do with computers has gotten more complex, there's a
real use for lotsa buttons.

   Gimme a keyboard (or half) on the top of a mouse, and I'll be even
more happy. With good keyboard shortcuts, you can move a text cursor
around, select text, etc faster and more naturally than picking a hand
off the keyboard (which was designed for two hands..  not
coincidentally, that's what most humans tend to have) mousing, going
back. Graphical programs like Photoshop still benefit from the
keyboard, as I find it far faster to use the keyboard with my left
hand to select tools, etc than the moving the mouse over, selecting
tool, moving back.

   [Ultimate "portable" computer and input device does go to
Washu[-chan]. I'd seriously love one of those setups...  Bonus points
if you get the reference (tip: think anime) :]

Nathan Mates
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