From: Douglas Livingstone <rampant@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T11:14:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Respect and Disappointment

On Apr 1, 2005 11:15 PM, Stephen Kellett <snail@objmedia.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >Applications like Photoshop need much more than two buttons
> 
> 2 buttons is enough. If you want more thats fine - tends to be user
> specific.

An old philosophy teacher complained that peoplekept braking things
down to linguistic philosophy... but it does seem to apply a little
here.

When I said PS needed more than 2 "buttons", I meant that it needs
more than two "ways to click on something". Interestingly in PS, most
of those ways are through keyboard modifiers (Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Shift
+ Alt, Ctrl + Alt, spacebar etc), rather than using my right mouse
button. It works perfectly fine. That's probably an influence due to
it being used on Macs, but isn't something I've found to be a problem.

> What I suggested is a compromise to
> satisfy the needs of those that think a single button mouse is better.

If you think it is a valid comprimise, then I think you have
misunderstood the problem in the first place.

Douglas