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I can accept that some folks like their multi-button mice. They are free to buy them, and all the power to them. But I don't need more than one button. Personally, I am a laptop owner. I use the trackpad on my TiBook all day long (I have worn the paint off of the button). I can hit control and get a contextual menu if I want, or I can use keyboard shortcuts (my preferred method) to do things quicker than navigating the menus above.
Frankly, I think mice are pretty awful. I have owned a trackball (Turbo Mouse) for something like 10 years, and have never regretted the $100 I spend on the thing (I have had 2: 1 ADB and the other USB). Groping around on the desktop or having to look away from the screen just disrupts the flow of things.
But I don't program the buttons to do anything custom on the Turbo Mouse. For me, I don't know why I should bother to. I always forget what it they are used for. Chording, etc. is a big whatever to me. But that is me. If someone wants to make some kind of bizarre 2 foot tall rubber smurf that can have its various appendages programmed through a control panel so that, when you pinch its nose and left ear, it performs a copy, or scroll up and down by jabbing a fork in its left eyeball and wrenching it up and down, if it works for you, then have a good time with it.
This is not to disqualify the contextual menu plug-ins people have made. There are several third party ones I need every day, and I had started writing my own about 1-2 months ago. But you don't need a second mouse button to realize the value of contextual menus.
Contextual menus are a tool. They can be abused and polluted, as they have been in Windows (nasty interface inconsistencies abound), and they have been occasionally. Services are the same way.
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