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

[Dan Attwood]

i'd join in this argument but i'm far to busy playing with my new
vista install - all the best bits of mac, gnome and kde repackaged and
re-badged

On 19/12/06, matt house <matthouse at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> 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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