[squeak-dev] Help pages need your help

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Tue Dec 24 19:19:33 UTC 2019


Nicola is probably right about sunsetting our beloved Red/Yellow/Blue; it's certainly ancient and archaic. Mind you, it *is* still enshrined in a fair bit of code. It would however be reasonable to try something more helpful in documentation and I am reminded of the RISC OS approach of referring to Select, Menu, Extend (which were left/middle/right buttons). That kind of naming has a decent clue as to function in the name and it isn't hard to explain that three-button mice have A/B/C, two button mice (do they still exist? a stupid idea that I hope has died) are A/B and shift-key-B for C, trackpads are... a bit more complicated because so many different types, and so on. Could we perhaps settle on Select/Menu/Halo and explain that you can choose from a variety of settings for which button/key/gesture/voice-command maps to each? JRM pointed out how the whole left/middle/right can get messed up by a left-handed-mouse option in some OSs. I've never used that despite being left-handed!

Does Select/Menu/Halo seem suitable?

tim
--
tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building




More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list