Jeff Spaleta wrote:
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.
Ouch!! I must have forgotten a smilie somewhere. Well it's a Logitech,
like most mouse these days. I swear it's tough to bring up a popup menu
with the pressable mouse-wheel, you always end up scrolling things by
accident. But the most difficult is the dynamic window resize (Alt +
middle-button), a key feature for me. Doing this with the mouse-wheel is
particularly akward. I just which i could change this with gconf, but i
can't. I used to maintain a metacity patch, but you eventually tire of this.
-denis