Re: intelligent dialogs

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

Why are you being like this about the issue?

I gave a perfectly simple suggestion:  why aren't mouse buttons colour coded
or named?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Fox" <kfox@vulpes.com>


> "Michael T. Babcock" wrote:
> > That said, no, I wouldn't advise numbers.  I can understand X using
> > them internally ... But I don't want to know that usually,
> > and neither does any other user.
>
> Sure. Just alias the event bindings to locale-specific names. Or
> have your configuration interfaces show pictures of hands. You could
> choose to define the portable Button3 or the U.S. English specific
> RingFingerButton.
>
> It's hard to avoid numbers altogether, especially as a common language,
> and I think it's a bad idea to try.