Re: intelligent dialogs

[Ken Fox <kfox vulpes com>]

"Michael T. Babcock" wrote:
> You're trying to convince me that left handed people in north america should
> be taught to count from right to left intuitively for the sake of their
> mouse?

No, numbering is just a convention:

  little finger = 4
          thumb = 0

Put both hands palm down on a table in front of you and the
finger numbers are:

(left hand) 4 3 2 1 0 (right hand) 0 1 2 3 4

We can bind commands to finger-# and it doesn't matter which hand
you use. (This makes sense because fingers have different abilities
depending upon morphology not on spatial ordering... ;)

All that's necessary is for the software to know if somebody is
using the mouse left or right handed and it can reverse the button
ordering so that everything else "just works". (A really smart mouse
would do this automatically upon detecting where the user's thumb
is. ;)

This is why X11 uses Button1, Button2, Button3, etc. instead of
LeftButton, MiddleButton, RightButton.

- Ken