[Klug-general] Hi All, greetings and a laptp enquiry

[matt house]

Quoting J D Freeman <klug at quixotic.org.uk>:

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> On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:43:31AM +0000, matt house wrote:
> > same as me. always handy to have a mousewheel and a middle click, why
> should you
> > need to use both hands just to bring up a context menu.
> > 
> > it's a real pain in the ass when fluxbox is your primary wm anyway.
> 
> With chord middle, a wheel and middle click aren't stricktly necessary,
> but it helps.
> 
> With evilwm you need the left hand on the keyboard to do anything with
> a window, like move it forward, send it back, move it, resize, etc...
> But, if you are using a maching properly, you are using both hands
> anyway. This said, having a right click in gimp without needing the
> keyboard is damn useful. 
> 
> Swings and roundabouts?

agreed. however I still think that not having a second mouse button is a bad
design decision.

It's nice to see apple bring in two button mice on some of their desktop line,
but I won't be looking at apple notebook hardware again until they start putting
a second button on them too.

> 
> > I beleive it has something to do with apples opinion of their target market
> :P
> > personally I'd object at buying a product from a company that
> automatically
> > assumed I couldn't cope with more than one mouse button
> 
> As much as I hate to say it, users are stupid. All of them.

without a doubt. but as somwone working in the IT industry, the trick is to deal
with them like idiots without letting them know that they're idiots.

> 
> > we're not mac bashing, we're merely discussing the technical merits and
> flaws of
> > various hardware solutions. :)
> 
> Groovy, onward! Whats next? Sony viao and how appallingly designed they
> are?
> 
> J

that sounds like a plan ;)


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