RE: Mouse actions

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

I like the idea of key board stuff. Hmm... maby a combination of the 2
ideas.

left button does menu
middle button is configurable
right button is the context menu

The middle button is configurable through a D&D menu with radio buttons for
COPY
MOVE
LINK

There also a menu or capplet for key excelerators 
      ALT  SHIFT  CTL
copy   X     0     0
move   0     X     0
link   0     0     X

So if you hold down alt when middle draging it forces copy, if you hold down
shift durring the drag it moves, or whatever you have configured.

I agree with the simple rules. In windows, I allways use right drag because
it propmts me. I can never be shure what it is doing with the left drag.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	famrom@idecnet.com [SMTP:famrom@idecnet.com]
> Sent:	Friday, March 05, 1999 3:27 PM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Mouse actions
> 
> What about:
> - one button always shows a menu.
> - the other is configurable via control panel.
> - the third is the context menu.
> You can choose which button does what and which keys to modify.
> 
> So it will look (here showing my proposed defaults):
> 
> Link, move & copy via mouse:
> - Assign tasks to buttons:
>                  1 2 3
>   LMC menu       X O O
>   Fast action    O X O    _ Left handed (-> 3 2 1)
>   Context menu   O O X
> - The fast action button does:
>         Alone +Shift  +Ctrl
>   Link    X      O      O
>   Move    O      X      O
>   Copy    O      O      X
> 
> Power user will be able to set whatever they want, normal users will get a
> consistent design. Btw: the left handed swaps buttons 1 and 3 in the
> header
> and the contents of the columns (it just mirrors the form).
> 
> Using rules like "if removable media" or "if binary" will just only lead
> to
> confusion.
> 
> Lets the user learn that to move, this, to copy, that, and to link, the
> other. No strange rules. Simple rules. Always, everywhere.
> 
> GSR
>  
> 
> 
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