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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 7 Apr 2010 06:39 On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:07:41 +0100, Trooper <removethis(a)trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid> wrote: >Peter Ceresole wrote: >> Trooper <removethis(a)trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid> wrote: >> >>>> I'm just amazed that you got the Logitech software to work properly! >>>> >>> It's not the best in the world, is it! >>> I especially like the feature that randomly slows the scroll wheel down >>> to an absolute crawl, until you hibernate the machine and bring it back >>> again. ;) >> >> I've been using it for many years now with tailed mice, on laptops and >> desktops, PPC and Intel. Never the slightest trouble. Always works. No >> slowdowns. >> >> Could I suggest that your setup might be broken? > >You could suggest that, but I think it is a problem with the wireless >mice and the logitech software, which is probably why you haven't seen it :) Never happened to me either, with MX700, MX1000 and MX Revolution wireless mices. The Logitech Control Centre has been surprisingly well behaved if a bit feeble in its options. I do want to take this opportunity to tell PeterC again that there are at least two ways of adding double-click to a Magic Mouse, neither of which change any other behaviour. BetterTouchTool and MagicPrefs. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." -- Gene Spafford
From: Woody on 7 Apr 2010 06:52 Trooper <removethis(a)trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > Peter Ceresole wrote: > > Trooper <removethis(a)trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > > > >>> I'm just amazed that you got the Logitech software to work properly! > >>> > >> It's not the best in the world, is it! > >> I especially like the feature that randomly slows the scroll wheel down > >> to an absolute crawl, until you hibernate the machine and bring it back > >> again. ;) > > > > I've been using it for many years now with tailed mice, on laptops and > > desktops, PPC and Intel. Never the slightest trouble. Always works. No > > slowdowns. > > > > Could I suggest that your setup might be broken? > > You could suggest that, but I think it is a problem with the wireless > mice and the logitech software, which is probably why you haven't seen it :) I exlusively use logitech wireless mice an my machines and haven't seen that problem either. -- Woody
From: Peter Ceresole on 7 Apr 2010 06:57 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > I do want to take this opportunity to tell PeterC again that there are > at least two ways of adding double-click to a Magic Mouse, neither of > which change any other behaviour. BetterTouchTool and MagicPrefs. Yes, I remembered that, but when I first came across the Magic Mouse, which was when it was first launched and we went on the works outing to the Applestore to play with them, I was jolly pissed off to find that I couldn't configure it to double click on the right button [1]. Whereas the Logitech mice come with an extension that allows me to configure the clicks the way I like them. Why Apple won't include that, I don't know, apart from the iSteve's control freakery. However, I don't complain about that as it is certainly part of his character that has given us the most beautiful and effective machines in existence. [1] I know some people see this as the work of the devil but they are wrong as can be. Ctrl-click is easy, and brings up all the rt-click options. And I use it maybe once a month, if that. Whereas double click on the right button I use several times an hour, maybe several times a minute. No contest; contextual click is an interesting but useless feature. Double-click is simply essential. -- Peter
From: Peter Ceresole on 7 Apr 2010 07:06 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Yes, I remembered that, but when I first came across the Magic Mouse, > which was when it was first launched and we went on the works outing to > the Applestore to play with them, I was jolly pissed off to find that I > couldn't configure it to double click on the right button Oh, and I forgot; it costs around �50, and I need to get two. The Logitech mice I'm getting cost �7.50 each. Although they do less, they still suit me down to the ground, and the gestural stuff is less useful than the Ctrl-scroll zooming and similar stuff that I prefer. -- Peter
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 7 Apr 2010 07:07
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:57:19 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> I do want to take this opportunity to tell PeterC again that there are >> at least two ways of adding double-click to a Magic Mouse, neither of >> which change any other behaviour. BetterTouchTool and MagicPrefs. > >Yes, I remembered that, but when I first came across the Magic Mouse, >which was when it was first launched and we went on the works outing to >the Applestore to play with them, I was jolly pissed off to find that I >couldn't configure it to double click on the right button [1]. Whereas >the Logitech mice come with an extension that allows me to configure the >clicks the way I like them. Why Apple won't include that, I don't know, >apart from the iSteve's control freakery. However, I don't complain >about that as it is certainly part of his character that has given us >the most beautiful and effective machines in existence. All true - shame that "lots of options" rather precludes "beautiful and effective". I certainly fall on the latter side these days, except on those cases where I have to rummage through lots of options to get something to behave the way I need it to (viz use of Agent.exe as my newsreader...). >[1] I know some people see this as the work of the devil but they are >wrong as can be. Ctrl-click is easy, and brings up all the rt-click >options. And I use it maybe once a month, if that. Whereas double click >on the right button I use several times an hour, maybe several times a >minute. No contest; contextual click is an interesting but useless >feature. Double-click is simply essential. Interesting how usage experiences can be so different, even on a system that has low levels of options. I hardly ever double-click things (cmd-o gets more use), but I use right- and middle-click constantly. I think I even use triple-click more than double-click, but that's due to Firefox doing selection wrong in some edit fields - it should be a single click to highlight all. Cheers - Jaimie -- Women's breasts are like electric train sets. They're meant for kids, but usually it's the fathers who wind up playing with them. |