Applications in next Ubuntu

[Will Backman]

On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 16:37 +0100, Wouter Eerdekens wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:24:48PM +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > The only thing that put me off a littel bit, is the mouse that have only
> > one button. I am really used to right clicking objects to get a
> > local/contextual little menu. 
> > Maybe modern Mac have 2 buttons nw, I don't know...
> 
> No, they don't... But I use an USB 3 button mouse (well, 2 buttons and a
> scroll wheel) with my iBook. On the box, they claimed it wouldn't work
> with Mac OS X. Well: it works fine with linux AND with Mac OS X...

While I also dislike the one button mouse, it was a well-researched
design decision by Apple.  Most users are confused by multiple mouse
buttons.  Also, developers must design with a single mouse button in
mind.  Rather than hiding functions in context menus, which are less
"discoverable", functions must exist in menus.