Re: question about RMB

[Aaron Weber <aaron helixcode com>]

Hello.

Pragmatism:

  No matter how much we lean in one direction or other, there will be
some non-compliant and weird documents out there that will have the
buttons described in another way.  However, as long as the basic
introduction to how to use a mouse (the "terminology" section in the
current Gnome User's Guide) explains both, everyone will know that there
are diverging terminologies which they may or may not encounter, and
will know how to deal with the exceptions.

Non-Pragmatism:
People who put their mice on the left typically know they're doing it in
a non-standard way, and already know that the usual conventions are
reversed when you switch sides.
so, we could probably get away with the left-right-middle thing.
although 1,2,3 is probably better, my guess is that left-right will
stick around for the usual Unix "Historical" reasons. :>

a.

John Kodis wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:31:37PM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Perhaps I've yet to overcome my naivete, but I don't think this is the
> best notation.  The "context click" notation assumes that the user
> already knows what a context menu is, and which button they should
> click on the get it.  It seems that this should be one of the main
> goals of at least an introductory document.  It also doesn't "scale
> up" to other uses -- for instance, you wouldn't write "...resize the
> window by dragging the window border with the context click button."
> 
> > (Note: This is not a vote, it is a test to see whether we can reach a
> > concensus on this.)
> 
> Sorry to be the consensus-buster, but I still prefer the button-1,2,3
> notation.
> 
> -- John Kodis.
> 
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