RE: Mouse actions

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

Ok, have a checkbox for enabeling/disableing the shortcut keys.
Leave all other ideas the same:

On the computers with reall mice (i dont consider a 1 button mouse a mouse
:)
they get the choice of fast keyboard excelerators
on the 1 button mice, you still can do the exceleration stuff, you just have
to manually select the mode from the menu. It will take you an extra second
or two.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gleef [SMTP:dzol@virtual-yellow.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 09, 1999 7:06 AM
> To:	Fox, Kevin M
> Cc:	gnome-list@gnome.org; recipient.list.not.shown
> Subject:	RE: Mouse actions
> 
> 
> On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> > 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 don't think this will work.  MkLinux, LinuxPPC and NetBSD/PPC users
> usually have a mouse that has one physical button.  My understanding is
> their X servers emulate the other buttons by using the very same keyboard
> combonations you are suggesting.  GNOME using a scheme like this on
> such machines would either break the X Server or break GNOME, neither is a
> good thing.
> 
> -Gleef