Re: no more right click + drag?

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 14:50, Azrael wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 21:15, George Farris wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 10:46, dave wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 12:10, George Farris wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 20:42, dave wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 16:34, Alan wrote:
> > 
> > I think much of this has completely missed the point.  People with
> > disabilities such as missing fingers on the mouse hand or other issues
> > can find things like this difficult, thats why we need to have it
> > configurable.
> 
> I use my index finger for left and middle click.
> If I had missing fingers, that would be annoying, but wouldn't affect my
> mouse usage. Indeed.. I could probably use 3 mouse buttons all with only
> 1 finger.

Well it's painfully obvious you've never instructed a room full of
disabled people before.  Many people with disabilities don't have just
missing members but also loss of function in some way.  When you have
these types of things you must be able to configure your pointing device
so it fits you, period.


> And if I woke up tomorrow with only 1 finger on my right hand, I'd have
> more to worry about than gnome click and drag behaviour.

This is just plain uncalled for and insensitive.


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George Farris <george gmsys com>