I don't remember when and never knew why the "Swap Mouse Buttons"
preference was enabled by default, but that broke the documentation along
with messing with command and control buttons, changes which were driven to
adhere to various OS developer idiosyncrasies.  Tim's reference to"Select,
Menu, Extend" on RISC OS seems to echo the original definitions of buttons
for the three button mouse which was used with Smalltalk and I would be
fine with using them in the wiki documentation.

However, the reality is that any term for any button, key, hand gesture,
etc. is arbitrary and subject to change by the underlying OS and/or
application setting and the best Squeak can aspire to is precise
standardization of the words used in the code and documentation. Since we
have so much invested with RYB in code and documentation, I suggest we stay
with it.

Select, Menu, Extend

-jrm

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 12:19 PM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> 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
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John-Reed Maffeo
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