On Apr 6, 2006, at 12:59 PM, Bob Shell wrote:
On Apr 6, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Badri A wrote:
And what's the deal with the single mouse-click? <G> It's downright
silly to do Ctrl+Click when you could just use another button. As
silly as having one button change both shutter speed and aperture as
some all-auto starter SLRs do. Mac seems to have forgotten the
'simple user interface' rules it built its GUI by.
Apple has the two-button mouse now.
I've used Wacom tablets with my Macs for years, and they have the
two-button mouse with scroll wheel.
Mac OS X has supported multi-button pointing devices since it was
released.
The design of Mac OS X user interface with a single-button mouse is
based upon user testing that came out of the Xerox PARC Learning
Research Group long ago that showed a single button mouse was the
easiest interface to learn and the two button mouse caused the most
difficulties. That hasn't changed, but so many are accustomed to the
two-button mouse now that it made sense for Apple to offer one of
their own.
Personally, I find using the keyboard in conjunction with a one
button mouse easier and faster for most things. I have two of the
Apple Super Mouse and usually turn off all the additional features as
I find them distracting, I've turned off all the multiple button
functions on my Intuos3 as well. Same reason I stopped using the
supposedly-great Microsoft Mouse when someone gave me one ages ago: I
prefer the simpler approach. Long acculturation/accommodation counts
for more than anything else with these things, evidently.
Godfrey
