"New" XFCE User - a Few Q's
TerryJ
listmail at exemail.com.au
Sun Feb 18 10:21:47 CET 2007
Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> TerryJ wrote:
>
>> Right-click if you are right-handed, left-click if you are left-handed.
>> Whichever, you use some finger other than the index finger. If there's
>> an accepted way of saying that (other than using numbers), I'd like to
>> know what it is.
>>
>>
> Our documentation usually just says right-click, I believe, and expects
> left-handed users to translate as necessary. My wife actually calls it
> the 'wrong' mouse button ;-)
>
> Jasper
I'm sure there's something impolitical (as well as inaccurate) about
"right-click" and I believe I've seen a politically correct and accurate
term. "offset" "other" "third finger" ? With 4 or 5 button mouses,
you've got "thumb button", "pinky (? fourth) button and "middle
button". It's a worry.
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Regards, TerryJ
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