🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 26 Mar 1996 02:35:12 -0500, cirby@magicnet.net (Chad Irby)
wrote:

>danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
>
>> BTW, I can handle a mouse very well, thank you (but I hate the single 
>> button flavour, which needs all kinds of kludges to achieve more than 
>> one function in a certain context).
>
>Yup.  "All kinds," in this case, meaning the use of the Shift, Command, or
>Option keys with the non-mouse hand.  *So* much more difficult than having
>all of those useful keys on the other hand.  And "kludges" meaning "built
>into the operating system, rather than depending on the whims of
>individual programmers who have all of the cooperative instincts of house
>cats."
>
>Just awful.

Glad you agree, it is.  Especially for an OS that promotes ease of
use, having to remember which command/shift/option shortcut with the
one button mouse is quite bizarre instead of just clicking on the
right button mouse and getting a pop up menu with all your options
presented in front of you.


>Even though it's usually easier to learn how to coordinate with the keays
>on the other hand, and even though it gives you more options, and even
>though it's less strain on your mouse hand...
>
>In other words, Dan is used to one thing, and one thing only.  Don't
>startle him.

Apparently you have that problem as well.  Perhaps Dan doesn't like
jumping back and forth between the mouse and the keyboard when it
shouldn't be necessary.