[GRLUG] Ubuntu Oneiric

[Don Ellis]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Mike Williams <knightperson at zuzax.com> wrote:
> Is it possible, and/or are there any desktop interfaces that implement, to
> have a mouse button pull up the File, Edit, Etc menus right where you are? A
> lot of systems now have mice with far more than 2 buttons, and many of them
> don't get used. How about at least an option for the buttons being, roughly,
> select/drag, context or mini menu, global menu? It seems to me this would
> give you the space savings of Unity's method without requiring a large mouse
> move to get to the menus.

On Mac OSX, a right click (or ctrl-click if you haven't gotten a n+1
button mouse, which current Apple mouses are) brings up a context
sensitive menu. I think that started around v8.0, but might have been
earlier. No need for most File menu operations since they are really
easy to get to with the cmd key, and are pretty intuitive. There have
often been after market enhancements for this feature as well, and
it's probably easy to add to the menu if desired.

--Don Ellis

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