CNET News Article: All Eyes On Apple

[Agathon]

Right clicking is also used to control apps from the Dock.

e.g.

[Asher]

Inconsistent interfaces? Apple is stuck in the 1980s for usability.

[Agathon]

[BustaMike]

Agathon... I know all about the menus within the OS. My gripe is that right clicking will not get me menus in programs because they're on the mac. For example, I don't believe this menu exists on a Mac:

[Spiffor]

It's a good thing Mac makes it possible to use contextal menus. I didn't know it did it. This thread actually raised my opinion of Macs, as I didn't know of the contextual menus, nor did I know the mac superiority in the domain of graphical creation was real.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by BustaMike
Agathon... I know all about the menus within the OS. My gripe is that right clicking will not get me menus in programs because they're on the mac. For example, I don't believe this menu exists on a Mac:

I'm afraid I'm out of ammo on that one, I don't have Photoshop 7 so I have no idea.

In Photoshop 6 you could enable them by installing an extension from Adobe.

Presumably this has been fixed in PS7.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Spiffor
It's a good thing Mac makes it possible to use contextal menus. I didn't know it did it. This thread actually raised my opinion of Macs, as I didn't know of the contextual menus, nor did I know the mac superiority in the domain of graphical creation was real.

If you want a good account of the differences go to xvsxp.com

There's a good forum there with lots of angry users as well.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Spiffor
It's a good thing Mac makes it possible to use contextal menus. I didn't know it did it. This thread actually raised my opinion of Macs, as I didn't know of the contextual menus, nor did I know the mac superiority in the domain of graphical creation was real.

Actually they've always had them AFAIK. What do you mean by superiority in Graphical Creation though?

[Agathon]

This what you were looking for BM?

You can see the tool buttons have contextual menus by looking at the graphic on the bottom right of the buttons that have one.

Presumably they are accessed by a right click or a double click (as in Graphic Converter).

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Agathon
What do you mean by superiority in Graphical Creation though?

I believe I have gathered in this thread that there was Mac-only superior software for graphics.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Spiffor

I believe I have gathered in this thread that there was Mac-only superior software for graphics.

I wouldn't say that. A lot of people prefer Final Cut Pro as their video editing app of choice, but you can get most Graphics apps on both platforms.

[BustaMike]

Originally posted by Agathon
This what you were looking for BM?

You can see the tool buttons have contextual menus by looking at the graphic on the bottom right of the buttons that have one.

Presumably they are accessed by a right click or a double click (as in Graphic Converter).

That's the same menu, but the right click menu does not exist. Instead you have to control + click or alt + click (don't remember which) on the tool and it will scroll to the next tool. Nothing pops up and there's no way to view more than one tool at a time. The little arrow on the bottom right of each box only means that there's more than one tool for that particular box. You can see how that would be annoying.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by BustaMike


That's the same menu, but the right click menu does not exist. Instead you have to control + click or alt + click (don't remember which) on the tool and it will scroll to the next tool. Nothing pops up and there's no way to view more than one tool at a time. You can see how that would be annoying.

Which version are you talking about?

[Drake Tungsten]

For example, I don't believe this menu exists on a Mac:

Accessed by a right-click...

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Gatekeeper
Not all Apple users are dumbasses, Asher, and you'd do damn well to keep that in mind, bucko.

Gatekeeper

You know...whenever someone uses the word, "bucko"...I immediately get an image of Ron Howard...