What IGS thinks about the Linux Desktop

Rob Kaper cap at capsi.com
Mon Nov 24 20:40:03 GMT 2003


On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:30:08AM -0500, George Staikos wrote:
>    Or are on a Mac and don't have MMB easily accessible in any form.  I have 
> to emulate it with a keyboard key when I'm using the built-in mouse.  In OS 
> X, I'm able to easily navigate and operate with only one button.  I managed 
> to convince Kopete developers to enhance kopete to one-button friendly mode 
> (there could still be more work), and it's quite nice, even with a two button 
> mouse!

We're making a UNIX desktop though, not a My First Sony one-button-does-all
desktop. There's a third mouse button on my mouse for a reason. Any
attempt to convince me to dumb applications down to the lowest common
hardware denominator will be met with extreme hostility. ;-)

One-two-three button discussions aren't at all interesting anyway, as any
KDE application should function perfectly with keyboard only in the first
place, no?

Rob
-- 
Rob Kaper     | "In the name of sheer pity, won't someone operate on
cap at capsi.com | Chairman Arafat and put that poor cancer into a cleaner
www.capsi.com | environment? -- Rick Brookhiser
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