Re: more GMC ideas

[Jan Gentsch <gentsch ifm uni-hamburg de>]

I guess the more important point is that it is very difficult to do a
double click using the middle button emulation setting (close to
impossible at least with my abilities).
A single click is fine and the way Netscape handles opening a new window
(which is the way it should behave, so Miguel said).
For myself, I use a PenPartner graphics tablet. Same kind of Problem, a
double click on the middle button canīt be produced reliable.
In short I would not use a double click on anything other then the first
button, as it is hard to carry out on some hardware (which in my
perception is indeed what most people have).
Also personaly, with 6 mouse actions (l-click l-double-click l-drag
m-drag m-click? r-click) I somehow reached the limit of what I can
remeber.

Jan


Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, R. Steven Rainwater wrote:
> >
> > Hmmmm... I keep seeing lots of gnome-related messages saying
> > use the middle button for this or that.  What are we supposed to
> > do on a normal two button mouse (which is what I assume 90% of
> > us have!).  Are there some sort of keyboard-equivalents to get
> > "middle-button" actions on a two-button (or one-button) mouse?
> >
> 
> Buy a $15 three-button mouse. :-) You need it to cut-and-paste in plain X
> anyway. X pretty much assumes 3 buttons.
> 
> If you're a real cheapskate, XF86Config will let you set things so that
> pressing two buttons simultaneously is equivalent to the third button.
> 
> Havoc
> 
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