Re: question about RMB

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:38:18PM -0400 or thereabouts, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
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> Hi all:
> I'd like this thread to come to some kind of  conclusion. Let me
> summarize the options suggested so far as I see them:
>  ------Option one - use left/right notation----------
>  ------------option 2: use MB1/2/3 -----------------
> 
> Variant (applies to both options): use in docs "context-click" instead
> of "right-click"/"click with MB3" - also with a link. 

I go for option (mb :)) 2. You knew that already :) and I rather 
like the idea of context-click. What would the translators think 
of "select" for "click once on button 1", and "context-click" for 
"click once on button 3" and so on? Are they going to hate us? If 
not, go for it.

> I think that all arguments have been said - it is time to choose one
> of these options. I could live with both of them, but would prefer the
> first one. Either way, I think it is necessary to include this
> conventions section - saving us the need to explain in every doc how
> one presses middle button on a two-button mouse is good enough
> reason. 

Absolutely. Something that was brought up on #gnome the other night
was the idea of, in the end, improving the capplet for mouse stuff
so that as in xkeycaps you could pick a picture of your pointer
(trackball, mouse, rat, stylus, etc), then narrow it down to a
picture of your pointer with the right number of buttons, and specify
each one. "This is button one from now on. This is button two from
now on. This is button three (for "context-clicking") from now on."
And so on.

If that happened, at least with option two we wouldn't have to write
-quite- so many updates :)

I liked all the suggested wordings: I think the very final one was the
best.

Telsa