[OT] "The Condescending UI" (was: Do we need Win95/98/Me support?)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Sean Kelly" <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote in message 
news:mailman.70.1327626159.25230.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>On Jan 26, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>> The Apple key is treated like the control key - You just have to remember
>> that when you'd normally go for Control, on the Mac you'd do Apple 
>> instead.
>> I don't remember what the hell the Mac's "Control" key is for. My Option 
>> key
>> actually says "Alt" in addition to "Option" (no function key involved b/c
>> this isn't a laptop), so...I think it behaves the same IIRC…?
>
>"control" click on OSX is effectively right-click.  Outside of the console, 
>that's about the only use for it, as far as I know.=

Heh, yea. That's something thing I always found funny: Apple always used to 
prepackage one-button mice with their right-click-capable OSX machines 
because "one-button mice are simpler and easier". But I never understood how 
"control-click" qualified as simpler or easier than "right-click".

Even *my mom* isn't confused by existence of the right-button of her mouse, 
and she's the type of user who doesn't even know what a "web browser" is, 
*and* she doesn't even comprehend "double-click" (She calls it "two clicks" 
and doesn't know when to use "one click or two" - hell, she usually just 
double-clicks on almost everything). Even *she* isn't confused by second 
mouse button or the scroll wheel. And neither is my dad, and he's even 
*worse* than she is (as just one small example, he couldn't understand that 
he could use his *laptop* without it being plugged in. "It's a portable, 
dad, it has a battery. That's the whole point." Explaining it still didn't 
seem to help.)