[ge-talk] Mouseclick options

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Hi Kevin,

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Field" <kev at brantaero.com>
> To: glasselevator-talk at bug-br.org.br
> Subject: Re: [ge-talk] Mouseclick options
> Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:11:49 -0700 (PDT)
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> I too am a fan of UniversalScroller not just for the double-click, but
> for the middle button making it act as if you were on top of a
> scrollbar.  If we could count on a middle button being there, I would
> even get rid of scrollbars (and scrollwheels!) in favour of this,
> although I'm sure not everyone would agree.  :P
> 
> I can't think of double-clicking anywhere besides Tracker; however,
> currently you have an option for 'double-click speed' 
> if you run BeOS.

It seems pulling the double-click speed slider to the right makes left clicks work as rightclicks here...? (tried with a left-as-left-single click setting in UniversalScroller) 

> Why would we separate the single-click option from the mouse
> preferences if that one is in there?

I agree that wouldn't make much sense, but at the time of writing I didn't think of the possibility of using the Tracker as an answer to the issue. Ryan made me understand that that's probably a better idea.

> Also, I'm not a fan of the hovering in Windows, much preferring the
> middle button acting as a left-double-click.  But even better, I would
> think, would be left-click to launch, right-click to give a kind of
> glorified context menu that had both the stats you'd get on hover as
> well as clickable options like in a normal context menu.  It's a bit
> nonstandard, but wouldn't it work better in general?

I don't know; it sounds elaborate and chique at the same time :D


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> Kev
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