Why isn't there right-click in OS X yet?

[Tom C]

I knew someone at my old job who used her mouse upside down! And she claimed that she learned to do it that way from someone else.

How could someone not think to turn the thing the proper way up? Isn't it intuitive?

[pbrice]

I don't think that Apple needs to introduce a two-button mouse. If you want a two, three, four,...button mouse, please pick one up. However, I like the fact that Apple designs it system to function with a single button - its the simplest solution.

Plus, why do you need two buttons when it can be done with one? Namely, you can access contextual menus with Click + HOLD. If you just click on an item and hold it, the contextual menu pops up right under your pointer. Your in a hold pattern already, so just zip up or down the contextual menu to your item, and let go to implement. You don't have to use the Ctrl to get the contextual menu.

People seem used to the right-mouse form their experience with Windows and other systems, but Apple is MORE convenient and, quite frankly more compatible, than them because with Apple you can use:

Right Mouse click
Ctrl + click
Click + HOLD

Windows only supports Right Mouse click for contextual menus, and doesn't support Click + HOLD at all! Plus, even if you right mouse click on a Windows item, you have to click and let go, navigate to your choice, and then click again. How or why is this considered easier than Apple's implementation?!

[jeb1138]

OmniWeb even goes a step further than any other program I've seen in OS X yet -- (at least w/ my MS Intellimouse Optical) if you click-and-hold the scroll button at the same time as scrolling it will page down instead of just scroll down. Also, the left and right buttons (4th and 5th buttons) seem to be have some kind of functionality, but definitely different than the regular left and right clicks -- they're recognized as clicks in some places but not others.
It's hard to imagine why Apple would build all this functionality into the OS and not sell a multi-button/scroll mouse.

[uoba]

I've been using the Kensington Mouse (4 buttons + scroll + scroll button) and all buttons work under OSX -- Kensington brought out drivers for 10.0 ages ago, and two days after the release of 10.1 updated them so they could work with this as well.

Superb company. All buttons programmable!!

This is my 50th post by the way! Thank you Thank you.

[serpicolugnut]

Apple really needs to shed some of the stigma they have in the corporate circles. These short sighted Windows users see the Mac with it's one button mouse and get all high and and mighty about it - "Only one button - how can you do x, y, and z with only one button?".

I definitely think Apple is way overdue in making an Apple branded multi button mouse with a scroll wheel. Apple's Pro Mouse is great, but I'm sorry - after using the MS Intellimouse Explorer, why would I want to go back to a one button mouse? I don't want to have to keep my hand on the control key to bring up extra menus, etc. Plus, once you get used to a scrollwheel on a mouse when you surf the web, you never want to be without it.

I don't see why Apple just doesn't keep the single button Pro Mouse for the iMac line, and make a multibutton scrollwheel mouse for the pro Mac's. The OS is designed to take advantage of it, and I bet more than half of the pro users go out and buy one from somebody else anyway. Just seems to make sense for Apple to try and get that sale for themselves....

[Matrix Agent]

Exactly what I was thinking.

This may seem obsessive, but i can't stand the two second delay when I click and hold. I need right-click!

[jabhome]

Is a two button with a wheel that works just fine. Why wait for Apple to design a mouse when there are hundreds on the market that already available. If you are that obsessed with Apple that you will only accept a multi-button mouse blessed by Steve, then I would argue that you don't really need the right click functions.

It seems some of you folks are insecure in your computer purchase if you are worried what some Windoze user thinks about the Mac mouse. If you think that corporate America is shying away from the Mac platform because of the mouse you are crazy. Hell our servers don't even have mice, the techies do eveythin with keyboard commands.

Just my thoughts,
Jason

By the way that Kensington 4 button mouse looks cool, I will probably shell out the duckets to get one of those soom. Not only is it programmable but it looks good next to my iBook.

[serpicolugnut]

I should probably buy a cat....

I have the MS Intellimouse Optical, the Intellimouse Explorer, the Kensington Mouse In A Box Optical, and a Kensington 2 button Mouse In A Box.

Out of all of them, I prefer the MS Intellimouse Optical. My only beef with it is that it doesn't have any acceleration in OS X, and using OS X 10.1's built in Mouse control panel, the tracking is just too slow for me. That's why I went out and bought the Kensington MIABP Optical - it had OS X drivers/acceleration.

Hopefully MS will release OS X drivers for their mice. Once they do, it'll be back on my dual800...