Re: Standard Middle-Click Functionality

Andy Cowan <[email protected]> Thu, 02 Oct 2003 22:53:22 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.look
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>In any case, this was supposed to be for the benefit of beginners and 
>basic users. Do you really think that beginners will just happen to try 
>doing a simulataneous left and right mouse click? If they don't already 
>know the trick, they won't do it, and they won't read the XF86 man 
>pages so they won't discover the trick on their own. And that's why 
>hidden or secret functionality is a bad idea.
>
Well, first off I do think they'll do it eventually, by accident if 
nothing else, and figure it out.  And one of the first things most 
people learn when being introduced to an X desktop of any sort is how to 
middle-click.  This could be a useful feature for people who are new to 
KDE, but not new to X.  And for those who are brand-spanking-fresh out 
of Windows-new, put it in Kandalf's useful tips. 

Now, as for "hidden or secret functionality," I'd just like to point out 
that this would be nothing new to KDE, which is one of the 
worst-documented mature pieces of software that I've ever worked with.  
But that's another issue altogether.

Andy