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[Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 14,April,2010 08:46 PM, Vishnoo wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 10:02 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 07:52 +0200, Conscious User wrote:
>>
>>> So I was wondering if it wouldn't be interesting for the
>>> messaging menu to have a "clear" button of some sort,
>>> which would remove all indicators at once.
>>
>> Left and right-click or taken, but perhaps middle-click on the icon
>> could be offered as shortcut for this? That could be one of those things
>> you have to know about, but that are great if you do.
>>
>>
> 
> Do all mouse [mice ;)] have a middle-click button.
> AFAIK , not all have them.
> Few have a hidden middle-click using the scroll-wheel press as a
> middle-click. [not everyone uses this though]
> What about laptops having touchpads, they dont have middle-clicks? [Some
> users do configure the middle-clicks by using a two-finger tap or
> whatever]
> 
> Seems like a restriction when we base actions on middle-clicks.
> Preferably we should avoid the middle-clicks for such features.

I believe Ubuntu has 3-button emulation enabled by default (at least, I had to
disable mine on mice for a particular game that required button1+button3 be
recognized differently from button2).

Also, we aren't considering basing whole new actions on middle-clicks, we're
discussing about providing shortcuts to certain actions which are already
available in the indicator's menu, so if users have crippled mice, they just
have to go the longer route. :-)

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
Ubuntu Developer

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