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Originally posted by lhunath
...a whole lot of sense....
Wow, thanks lhunath! I was beginning to think that I was going to hit a brick wall of hostility on this whole matter. You managed to sum up the whole issue very eloquently. I note no one has made any counter against it.
Patchou has made his judgement that he won't do it, and that's entirely his perogative. Who knows, maybe it simply can't be done. Like I say, I'm no Windows developer.
As for the 'standard' way that Windows does things, no end of these ways are customisable. For instance, the mouse. By default, the left button is the primary button, it does things like selecting. The right mouse button traditionally brings up a context menu. In the 'Mouse' section in Control panel however, you can SWAP these two actions. You can even reconfigure the behaviour of the mouse regarding double clicking, so you only need to single click on icons. The defaults are undoubtedly the most common settings, and if you go to a computer where it is set differently to how you like it, it can be strange. But the option exists for the user to set things up as they want. So even this 'standardised' UI is customisable.
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