Wow - leave the one button mouse alone

[Eric D.]

on 17/4/02 15:47, Timothy A. Seufert at tas@mindspring.com wrote:

> At 3:06 PM -0400 4/17/02, Eric D. wrote:
> 
>> But, yes, Apple should provide better second/third/fourth mouse button
>> support than it does in OS X (I'm happy enough they at least have the scroll
>> wheel supported).
> 
> OS X automatically uses the right button for contextual menus.  I use
> a Logitech 3-button mouse and it "just works" without any extra
> software.

To be blunt -- contextual menus (OS 8/9 or X) suck. The GUI for them just
doesn't work right and they also don't contain a whole lot of useful
options: Help + New Folder + Show Info as default options for desktop click
(& I don't @!$!@#$!@ need help using the Finder -- I've been using Macs for
nearly two decades).

I would prefer more useful functions be assigned to my USB mouse right-click
like command-click (to open new windows in browsers), command-shift-click to
open new window behind, etc. In YDL I love the way that browsers treat my
four-button ADB mouse. Each button does a different thing (one opens a new
window, the other a contextual menu, one click and a fourth something else
(though, none of them allow for click and move the window around like a
graphics app).