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> this is completely non nondiscoverable I also don’t find this discoverable, but option clicking was best analogy to right clicking on Apple since the mouse u
by marmaduke 6y ago
> this is completely non nondiscoverable
I also don’t find this discoverable, but option clicking was best analogy to right clicking on Apple since the mouse used to have one button.
Your complaint is like saying that having to copy and paste with ctrl c and ctrl v is non discoverable in Windows with a two button mouse because in Linux it’s just select text and middle click somewhere else.
- oblio 6y ago> option clicking was best analogy to right clicking on Apple since the mouse used to have one button. Not high praise for Apple, wasn't the 1 button mouse the laughing stock of mouse users everywhere? :-)
- the_other 6y agoOnly the ones who’d learned about two-button mice. When the one-button mouse arrived, the majority of the population had never touched a mouse.
- oblio 6y agoTrue, but by the time the one button mouse left, the majority of the population had definitely seen or used a two or even three button mouse. We're talking about a decision that took 2 decades to reverse.
- bgorman 6y agoMy Apple Magic Mouse 2 doesn't have a discoverable right click button.
- PostThisTooFast 6y ago"Your complaint is like saying that having to copy and paste with ctrl c and ctrl v is non discoverable in Windows with a two button mouse because in Linux it’s just select text and middle click somewhere else." No it isn't, because those functions have equivalent menu items. Easter-egg controls in a GUI are a different (and inexcusable) story.
- marmaduke 6y agoSelecting text and it going to a clipboard is just as Easter eggy in my opinion. How is a user supposed to discover that?
- viraptor 6y agoThere's still a lot of software which displays ctrl+C/V next to the matching menu entry.
- marmaduke 6y agoBut you select text with the mouse, it’s understandable to continue the workflow with the mouse
- rowanG077 6y agoHow is that non-discoverable? Most software literally tells you beside the copy/paste entry that it is ctrl+c/v.