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Apple Requires Three-Button Mouse for Shake 2.5

Posted by pudge on from the but-i-only-have-a-five-button-mouse dept.

SpillerC writes "The requirements for the newest version of Shake (cross-platform: Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, Irix) will require a three-button mouse on the Mac. Are there any other Apple-produced applications (Apple owns Shake) that require a three-button mouse? Will Apple release its own three-button mouse now?"

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  1. Temporary by Aram+Fingal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My understanding of Apple's position on multi-button mice is that they unnecessarily complicate the user interface. They give the user one more place to have to look to figure out how to do something. OS X supports multi button mice if you want an alternate way of doing things but Apple ships one button mice to keep programmers from writing stuff that depends on the additional buttons.

    Shake is something which Apple acquired from another company. I suspect it will only require a three button mouse until Apple has a chance to rewrite it.

    Having said that, one other Apple product which used a three button mouse was, the now long gone, A/UX (Apple UNIX).