From: Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T05:22:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Respect and Disappointment

Stephen Kellett wrote:
> The mouse is such a fundamental part of todays UI and a single button
> mouse is like a one door car. Thats fine until the passenger wants to
> get out and has to climb over the driver. Apple seem to realise this as
> there have been recent press mutterings that the default may change to a
> 2 button mouse.

But where's the dog going to get out?  He'll dirty the seats.

I assumed the single-button trackpad would bother me more.  I prefer the
Thinkpad nubs.

However:

1) I hardly use the trackpad.  I navigate with the keyboard and live in vim.

2) I'm losing my reflex to right-click things to see what's "really"
going on.  Most apps' just don't seem to demand it of me.  This
phenomenon is a bit of a mystery, but coming from X, where each of three
buttons is trying its best to violate PoLS, I'm hardly sentimental.

The lone button has become little more than polarizing cultural emblem.

jeremy