Right Click

[Rhisiart]

Yes, this is a world shattering question.

Forget global warming, terrorism, nuclear proliferation.

How many use the right hand click on their mice (mouses?), if of course they use a double click mouse?

[eric2006]

Even though you can do most anything without a right-clicking mouse, I still like to have one. I just like to be able to point at something, then right click it to modify it, not select it, go to the edit menu, etc. I don't use right-click on apple laptops, but I do control-click sometimes.

[bbloke]

I wasn't quite sure whether to vote for "Sometimes" or "Always," as I frequently use the right mouse button but the left mouse button is more in use, obviously. I opted for "Always," in the end, because I virtually never Control-click anymore, I virtually always use the right click option where it exists. At the moment, I use a Logitech MX510 and use the right mouse button when clicking on files (eg. for "Get Info" etc.), when using a web browser, and frequently when playing games.

[Thank The Cheese]

I like the good ol fashioned control click. Also, when I use a 2 button mouse I find I'm so used to performing the "bear click" on an Apple 1 button mouse that I keep pressing both by mistake.

It's no so much that I'm against contextual menus -- I just prefer to learn the keyboard shortcuts so that I don't need either right or control clicks.

[Ferdinand]

I never use it, only in really rare cases when I work in Excel or something where I really need it (which happens maybe once a year, if not less).

[Natobasso]

I always use the right mouse button whenever I can (Logitech MX300 mouse) and I can even use my mouse on my pc laptop too. Sweet.

[fryke]

Wow, this poll seriously messes with my brain. I _am_ using my right hand with the mouse click. Well, it's a _trackpad_, and it doesn't have a second mouse button, and I sure don't _always_ right-click but rather often _left_-click as well - and then it _does_ have a "right"-click function, but that's handled by using two fingers on the pad while clicking the trackpad button. I guess I really don't understand what this poll should _show_ us when it's done... If this is only about whether people use Ctrl to get to the contextual menu, then a simple "yes"/"no" query about using the Ctrl-key would have been better imho. I've now clicked on "Never", because my trackpad only has a virtual right-click method, not really two buttons.

[Mikuro]

Well said, Fryke...I think.

If the question refers to using my right mouse button, then I use it all the time. If the question refers to using contextual menus (either with the control key or only with a mouse), the answer is rarely.

You see, I don't find contextual menus nearly useful enough to justify hogging my big, convenient right mouse button. Instead, I program my right button on an app-by-app basis, and relegate CM-clicking to the awkward-but-usable wheel button. In browsers, it opens a link in a background tab. In the Finder, it option-double-clicks (for neatly opening folders). In Interface Builder, it control-clicks (not for contextual menus, though; IB uses this combo for some vital dragging behavior for some reason).

The term "right-click" is something we should not want to adopt from the Windows world.