Re: GMC Feature Request

[mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus)]

+++ Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 12:26:41PM -0500 +++
Daniel Burrows e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 05:53:45PM +0200, Matthias Warkus was heard to say:
> > 
> > This is not a Gnome issue. The X server is responsible for emulating a
> > middle mouse button with a two-button mouse. Ah, yes, BTW, whether
> > people switch over from Windows easily or not should never be an
> > important issue with anything free. We need to go our own way.
> > 
> > mawa
> 
>   That doesn't mean, though, that you have to gratuitously require middle-clicks
> in a program.  And since Gnome is supposed to be a user-friendly interface,
> it's probably a good idea to at least consider newbies when designing programs,
> although if it makes you feel better they don't have to be *Windows*
> newbies. ;-)

How does not requiring middle clicks make a program user-friendlier?

mawa
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