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On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Humdinger humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: Hi John! On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:25:28 -0500 John Scipione wrote: The best compromise I can see out of all this is the idea of making ctrl+LMB emulate a RMB so that actions the currently utilize the RMB would now have a backup that uses the LMB. Everyone who likes RMB could continue, everyone who doesn't (me) would have a backup that uses the LMB. ...

Hi All, I'm working in an old BeOS app and I suspect there is a bug in TimeSource()-IsRunning() causing a problem. According to BeOS docs: ...

Hi John! On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:25:28 -0500 John Scipione wrote: The best compromise I can see out of all this is the idea of making ctrl+LMB emulate a RMB so that actions the currently utilize the RMB would now have a backup that uses the LMB. Everyone who likes RMB could continue, everyone who doesn't (me) would have a backup that uses the LMB. ...

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Stephan Aßmus superstippi@xxxxxx wrote: I absolutely see where you are coming from. Giving the RMB action functions /can/ be awkward. You can hardly use it with a pen input. With touch input, it's completely unusable, as long as touch displays don't differentiate between your index and middle finger… ...

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Matt Madia mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx wrote: For #9399, ReadOnlyBootPrompt will be renamed to FirstBootPrompt. In git, What is the preferred way to move src/apps/readonlybootprompt to src/apps/firstbootprompt? Will a simple `git mv src/apps/readonlybootprompt src/apps/firstbootprompt` work and preserve history correctly? ...

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Matt Madia mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx wrote: For #9399, ReadOnlyBootPrompt will be renamed to FirstBootPrompt. In git, What is the preferred way to move src/apps/readonlybootprompt to src/apps/firstbootprompt? Will a simple `git mv src/apps/readonlybootprompt src/apps/firstbootprompt` work and preserve history correctly? 'git mv' preserves history as well as git can. git doesn't remember ...

On 01/23/2013 11:52 PM, Matt Madia wrote: Will a simple `git mv src/apps/readonlybootprompt src/apps/firstbootprompt` work and preserve history correctly? If it doesn't, there is nothing we can do about it. Just mention the old name in the commit to be sure :-) ...

For #9399, ReadOnlyBootPrompt will be renamed to FirstBootPrompt. In git, What is the preferred way to move src/apps/readonlybootprompt to src/apps/firstbootprompt? Will a simple `git mv src/apps/readonlybootprompt src/apps/firstbootprompt` work and preserve history correctly? Thanks. ...

On 01/23/2013 11:25 PM, John Scipione wrote: The best compromise I can see out of all this is the idea of making ctrl+LMB emulate a RMB so that actions the currently utilize the RMB would now have a backup that uses the LMB. Everyone who likes RMB could continue, everyone who doesn't (me) would have a backup that uses the LMB. Now, that doesn't work with ctrl+alt since obviously you'd already be holding down ctrl. I wonder how crazy an idea changing ...

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Stephan Aßmus superstippi@xxxxxx wrote: I absolutely see where you are coming from. Giving the RMB action functions /can/ be awkward. You can hardly use it with a pen input. With touch input, it's completely unusable, as long as touch displays don't differentiate between your index and middle finger… On the other hand, as you can clearly see from the reaction, it stands the fact that most people use the desktop, at least Haiku, with a two button mouse. And they like the optimization that using the RMB for window actions gives them. Me actually included, I use send-to-back virtually all the time ...

Hello everyone, although we don't yet have much information on the agenda and who'll be attending we'd like to already announce the date and invite everyone to this years BeGeistert: Friday 13th to Thursday 19th of September 2013 in the Youth Hostel Düsseldorf, Germany ...

Hi, Am 22.01.2013 um 23:25 schrieb John Scipione jscipione@xxxxxxxxx: Can I assume that these cases were added in Haiku and were not in BeOS, or did they exist in BeOS? No, some were actually present in BeOS, like RMB sends a window to the back. Which I use very, very frequently given that I also change the mouse mode to focus follows mouse, which then lifts the restriction of active windows being always in front... ...

John Scipione jscipione@xxxxxxxxx schrieb: Double right-clicking files to open them a different way or opening a context menu with the LMB? The latter already exists: press LMB and hold it down for a moment and Tracker opens the context menu. -- So long, Julian ...

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:01 PM, pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: See my argument above, using the RMB to perform a resize reduces the overall consistency of using Haiku. The user can no longer rely on the LMB performing actions and the RMB performing context menus forcing them need to try RMB to perform actions. This is a net loss for consistency. This is not true. For example, the RMB is used to directly jump at a position in scrollbars. You can right click the tab/border/knob of a window to send it behind other (just the opposite of left click that brings it to front) [note ...

On 2013-01-22 at 22:22:11 [+0100], John Scipione jscipione@xxxxxxxxx wrote: * Note that I use the term LMB to mean primary mouse button and RMB to mean secondary mouse button. Yes, let's keep things simple for now. BTW, I use the mouse or trackpoint with my left hand, but I don't swap the buttons. I don't see how it is a moot point because the action requires you to ...