Re: question about RMB

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello ireland sun com>]

Hi Dan (and everyone else), 

Sorry to be obtuse but I don't really understand Telsa's suggested convention 
for the mouse buttons. I think that the suggestion for the middle button is 
"Context click", but I'm not sure. Could someone give me three examples of how 
the three separate mouse buttons would be used in this convention? And again, 
sorry for continuing to be dense, but whatever we call the buttons, don't we 
still have the same confusion when you reverse the handedness polarity? 

So, Sasha called for a vote on options one (RML) and two (123). I think Telsa 
suggested a third option but like I said, I'm not fully sure what it entails. 
Voting on what I do understand, for me option two would be the most acceptable. 
To be honest, I'd be wary of introducing another mouse button naming convention. 
RML and 123, although they have their faults do have industry and user 
recognition. I'd have to be 100% sure that a new mouse button naming convention 
successfully eliminates the faults in the existing conventions before signing 
up. 

All the best, 

Pat

PS The debate grinds relentlessly on...


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> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Arlo Rose wrote:
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> > Telsa Gwynne said:
> > 
> > >> 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.
> > 
> > My vote is for Context-Click.
> > 
> > Note that MB2 will never have an inherent meaning to a user, assigning it a
> > name that links it to its action is a much stronger naming method.
> 
> First, I must admit my naivete for opposing Arlo's suggestion.  I now
> believe that "context click" is much better than any of the other options
> we've seen.
> 
> I get the impression that many people would be happy with using
> "click"/"select", "middle-click", and "context-click".  (Including
> Telsa:)  Could we have a "show of hands" to see how many people support
> this option and how many oppose it?
> 
> (Note: This is not a vote, it is a test to see whether we can reach a
> concensus on this.)
> 
> It would be nice to reach concensus here, although I will certainly miss
> the periodic debates over this topic.
> 
> Dan
> 
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