Re: Random thought...

[Tom Vogt <tom lemuria org>]

Josh Steiner <Josh@BerkeleyNet.com> wrote:
> I remeber in someones post they had mentioned that it would be a shame
> to waste the third (middle) button on some peoples mice.  We can't bind
> any crucial function to that, becuase so many people don't have them.
> Today I was staring blankly at the code that I am hacking out here at
> work and I thought that it might be kind of cool to use that in that
> same fashion as those wheels on Microsofts new mice.  For those that
> don't know, there is a wheel in beween the 1st and 2nd button that
> scrolls whatever window you are in, if the application is aware.
> Perhaps when the user held her middle button and moved the mouse, the
> screen buffer would scroll and the cursor would stay put.  What do
> people think, or were there already other, more usefull ideas for this
> button?

this is a very cool thing(tm).

just two comments: a) you CAN assume everyone has at least 3 buttons. for
those that don't, there's always emulation in xfree86.

b) some apps already put the middle mouse button to work. netscape, for
instance.


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