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byI_Wrote_This ( 858682 ) writes:
As has been noted, cut&paste using just the mouse is a big productivity tool.
But Windows doesn't have it (and MacOS doesn't even have the concept of multiple buttons) so lets all sink to the highest common factor so that everyone can suffer.
Just like the KDE people removing shading (another extremely productive feature) just because it doesn't seem to be part of Wayland.
byRadagast ( 2416 ) writes:
That's funny, MacOS works just fine with multiple buttons, and happily pops up a context menu when I right click on something. Oh, I'm sorry, it might be a bit slow to load this webpage back there in 1999, the last year when this wasn't the case.
byI_Wrote_This ( 858682 ) writes:
MacOS works just fine with multiple buttons
Perhaps I should have said Apple. I believe they still supply a one-button mouse?
Similarly a PC laptop will just have a 2-button touchpad.
So I have a 3-button (well, 7 actually) mouse that I use with it so that I can be more productive.
It would be more useful if people advertized what these features are, rather than turn them off.
byBert64 ( 520050 ) writes:
Perhaps I should have said Apple. I believe they still supply a one-button mouse?
No they don't.
It might appear to have a single button, but the entire area is sensitive to touch so pressing on either side results in a different action, with the default settings making it behave like a traditional multi button mouse. The mouse also supports swiping - up and down like a traditional scroll wheel, or side to side as well.
Same with their touchpads - they look like a flat surface with no buttons, but they can behave like any number of buttons depending where you press, how hard you press, multi finger touch and gestures etc, and it's all pretty configurable.
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