FC5 rocks!

[Denis Leroy]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Hey I have an idea... lets build an input device which includes a
> button that depresses AND scrolls... and do so in a way that makes it
> difficult for users to use the button press functionality.. so they
> then complain when software developers attempt to utilize that action
> in a useful way. If i was a conspiracy theorist I'd claim your
> hardware manufacturer was deliberately trying to cripple the
> functionality of the middle-click button. Oh wait I am a conspiracy
> theorist and they are deliberately trying to cripple the functionality
> of the middle-click button.  Explain the me the point of including the
> middle-click functionality in an input device and making it
> delibrately difficult to use. Sounds like pathetically poor hardware
> design to me.

Ouch!! I must have forgotten a smilie somewhere. Well it's a Logitech, 
like most mouse these days. I swear it's tough to bring up a popup menu 
with the pressable mouse-wheel, you always end up scrolling things by 
accident. But the most difficult is the dynamic window resize (Alt + 
middle-button), a key feature for me. Doing this with the mouse-wheel is 
particularly akward. I just which i could change this with gconf, but i 
can't. I used to maintain a metacity patch, but you eventually tire of this.

-denis