On 4/24/06, Denis Leroy <denis(a)poolshark.org> wrote:
While we're on the subject, somebody at Gnome is in love with the
middle
button, since it seems more and more important features are moved to it.
Do you know how hard it is to click the middle button on a mouse when
that middle button is actually the mouse wheel (i.e. 90% of them) ?
Grrrr. I'm out!
Hey I have an idea... lets build an input device which includes a
button that depresses AND scrolls... and do so in a way that makes it
difficult for users to use the button press functionality.. so they
then complain when software developers attempt to utilize that action
in a useful way. If i was a conspiracy theorist I'd claim your
hardware manufacturer was deliberately trying to cripple the
functionality of the middle-click button. Oh wait I am a conspiracy
theorist and they are deliberately trying to cripple the functionality
of the middle-click button. Explain the me the point of including the
middle-click functionality in an input device and making it
delibrately difficult to use. Sounds like pathetically poor hardware
design to me.
-jef"I have no problem with my clickable scroll-wheel mouse. Then
again i spend a lot of time flipping people the bird so my middle
finger may be super-humanly dexterous from all the exercise"spaleta