Contextual menues - 1 or 2 click behaviour ?
Hi everyone!
I switched to the Mac platform this march and i was never
happier with any pc I have bought. My Mac mini will soon be
replaced with a 15 or 17 inch powerbook.
Beside all the other good things I've noticed about OSX I am
really happy about the fact that you can just hold the
right mouse button until the contextual menue pops up and
you've selected an entry, then release your finger and tada,
the desired function is triggered. That's different to
Windows and in my eyes much better and user friendly. Same
thing with the menu bar. Left click, hold, aim, release ->
function triggered.
What's your behaviour? Do you use a two click mechanism like
right click, select and then another right click for
triggering contextual menue options?
I only had one problem - with mouse gestures. I used to
trigger them with the right mouse button for a while. That
didn't allow me to use the ergonomic button-holding
mechanism as described further up. But when I'll be home in
september, even this problem will vanish!
I've ordered
the Mighty Mouse and it's happily waiting for me to asign
it's squeze buttons to my gestures app - if it supports
them. Hopefully.
What do you think? How do you use the contextual menues??
I switched to the Mac platform this march and i was never
happier with any pc I have bought. My Mac mini will soon be
replaced with a 15 or 17 inch powerbook.
Beside all the other good things I've noticed about OSX I am
really happy about the fact that you can just hold the
right mouse button until the contextual menue pops up and
you've selected an entry, then release your finger and tada,
the desired function is triggered. That's different to
Windows and in my eyes much better and user friendly. Same
thing with the menu bar. Left click, hold, aim, release ->
function triggered.
What's your behaviour? Do you use a two click mechanism like
right click, select and then another right click for
triggering contextual menue options?
I only had one problem - with mouse gestures. I used to
trigger them with the right mouse button for a while. That
didn't allow me to use the ergonomic button-holding
mechanism as described further up. But when I'll be home in
september, even this problem will vanish!
I've ordered the Mighty Mouse and it's happily waiting for me to asign
it's squeze buttons to my gestures app - if it supports
them. Hopefully.
What do you think? How do you use the contextual menues??
Comments
What else do you like/not like about the switch?
We can help if you need it.
This one click and hold to access a contextual menu is new to OS X. I like it, problem is this only applies to the Dock, anywhere else you still have to right click. Hence I don't use it, I like consistency. If the one click applied universally I would probably ditch the right click method for accessing contextual menus... maybe.
Originally posted by Kickaha
Welcome! I am *highly* amused by this, since the click-hold-select used to be the only way the Mac did it, and click-release-select was how Windows did it. Apple put in the Windows way after a *large* amount of griping by people used to Windows. Kind of funny to see someone actually be happy about the Mac behaviour, after all the flamefests that occurred. Heh.
Actually no, well, let me rephrase that. Having been a Mac user since 1984 and long before ever touching a Windows PC I too felt the click release method to access menu bar items was a better method. Having to hold that damn mouse button while deciding what I wanted to select from the menu is awkward at times. Back then the problem was solved by installing a Utility that allowed you to click and release the menu bar without having it collapse on you when the button was released. Eventually Apple adopted this method. I don't believe Windows 95 had even been released when this change was done. But my memory may be faulty on this.