Re: Standard Middle-Click Functionality

As for the earlier comments about whether people even have a middle
button, my comment is, I've been putting in wishes to make my fourth
and fifth mouse buttons usefull (i.e. Browser back button).  So I think
to say we should make the 3rd mouse button usable has probably
already been discussed in terms of the 4th, 5th and others.  If you can
make all buttons usable in KDE (without having to edit X11 config files)
then the only idea seeing floating around here is how to improve the
"What's This" feature, which unless it has improved in the last 10 months,
I don't think it is very useful as it is(it's as incomplete as KDE Docs).  So, 
as for the 3rd mouse button, all we are talking about is, "What should be the 
default for the 3rd, 4th, etc. buttons?"

Also, one of the things I don't like about multiple mouse buttons that I
think KDE should sit down and work out right away, is to specify very
clearly exactly what each button does(unless it's only going to be used
as some kind of a short-cut).  For example, one idea that popped into
my head was to clearly seperate configuration options from drop-down menus, 
this way we will always know how to find the configuration for something.  I 
haven't actually thought about the logistics or anything, but I hope you get
the essence of my point and don't take the details to heart.

LMB:  Select/Activate
RMB:  Extra Functionality(Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete)
MMB:  What's This
4MB:  Configure (Properties, Colors, etc)

Below is the site where there is some 4th button talk.  Notice one of the 
options is to make one of the buttons equivalent to double-clicking which 
would help old folks and others with accessibility problems(then again, we
can just remove double clicking).

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48062

Laters,
Henry


On Friday 03 October 2003 11:46 am, Jamethiel Knorth wrote:
> >Well, that should be configurable, so that I have
> >an option to do the same things with a keyboard
> >shortcut (eg. smth. like alt+F6 with the pointer
> >indicating something) and not to use the middle button
> >at all.
>
> I agree that it should be able to be configured to be set to something
> else, but I don't really know how to do any of that stuff in KDE, as I find
> its configuration options very confusing. For example, how do I set holding
> some random key and left clicking to cause a pop-up menu to appear, as if I
> had right clicked?
>
> In general, I think that all options should be configurable, but I am
> talking mostly about the default. And the default should be that
> middle-click causes a useful tip to appear.
>
> Making it configurable to be something else is a slightly different matter.
> The feature should exist, even if it can't be configured. However, you are
> correct that being configurable is something that should also be a portion
> of it.
>
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