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> want to eject a disk? drag it to the trash can...? That was just something that was there forever, basically since 1984. It was part of the Macintosh vernacu

by Dain42 10y ago

> want to eject a disk? drag it to the trash can...? That was just something that was there forever, basically since 1984. It was part of the Macintosh vernacular. You could also right-click to eject.

ISL 10y ago
if there was a two-button mouse....
wvenable 10y ago
Right-click? On a mouse with one button?
- kagamine 10y ago
  You had t press a modifier key to right click, but 2 button mouses have been sold with macs since 10.2 at least, and 10.2 was available in 2001/2.
  - masklinn 10y ago
    > You had t press a modifier key to right click Control, which still works incidentally.
    - rangibaby 10y ago
      You still need to enable right click from a menu for Apple-brand mice and trackpads. Otherwise ctrl+click is still the only way
      - masklinn 10y ago
        IIRC for trackpads at least it's been enabled by default for some time (though I believe the default gesture is a double-tap rather than a tap in the bottom-right corner).
    - rangibaby 10y ago
      You still need to enable right click from a menu for Apple-brand mice and trackpads. Otherwise ctrl+click is still the only way
- Animats 10y ago
  "The Macintosh has a multi-button mouse, but the buttons are on the keyboard".
niccaluim 10y ago
Contextual menus weren't added until Mac OS 8 or thereabouts. In all prior versions you either dragged to the Trash or used an item in the menubar.
rtpg 10y ago
That's kind of my point. It's all learned vernacular, so having inately understandable behaviour isn't as important as being consistent. Though someone's saying that dragging the ion turns it into the eject symbol, which I hadn't noticed until now but is more reasonable.
Bartweiss 10y ago
But it's been considered a terrible design choice since 1984. It's not one of those things that we decided against long after it was put in place, Unix philosophy types were complaining about the inconsistency of that choice the day it came out.

by Dain42 10y ago

ISL 10y ago

if there was a two-button mouse....

wvenable 10y ago

Right-click? On a mouse with one button?

kagamine 10y ago
You had t press a modifier key to right click, but 2 button mouses have been sold with macs since 10.2 at least, and 10.2 was available in 2001/2.
- masklinn 10y ago
  > You had t press a modifier key to right click Control, which still works incidentally.
  - rangibaby 10y ago
    You still need to enable right click from a menu for Apple-brand mice and trackpads. Otherwise ctrl+click is still the only way
    - masklinn 10y ago
      IIRC for trackpads at least it's been enabled by default for some time (though I believe the default gesture is a double-tap rather than a tap in the bottom-right corner).
  - rangibaby 10y ago
    You still need to enable right click from a menu for Apple-brand mice and trackpads. Otherwise ctrl+click is still the only way
Animats 10y ago
"The Macintosh has a multi-button mouse, but the buttons are on the keyboard".

niccaluim 10y ago

Contextual menus weren't added until Mac OS 8 or thereabouts. In all prior versions you either dragged to the Trash or used an item in the menubar.

rtpg 10y ago

That's kind of my point. It's all learned vernacular, so having inately understandable behaviour isn't as important as being consistent. Though someone's saying that dragging the ion turns it into the eject symbol, which I hadn't noticed until now but is more reasonable.

Bartweiss 10y ago

But it's been considered a terrible design choice since 1984. It's not one of those things that we decided against long after it was put in place, Unix philosophy types were complaining about the inconsistency of that choice the day it came out.