12/19/2007 4:34:08 PM

I totally disagree with doing away with or reducing the functionality of the right click. This has been central to my using computer since the 90's. I taught and developed a program when I worked for General Motors and the right click was KEY to convenience. The shortcut menu reduces alot of extended mouse motion. It is a "TAUGHT" thing and people just need to learn it. Choose with the "left" and Menu with the "right". It couldn't be simpler. I had no problem teaching hundreds of employees to use the right mouse button.

12/20/2007 7:40:27 AM

The right click options are still all there. There is now just another visible path to them.

I agree. I've been using right click since OS/2 2.0 and have loved it. I would hate to see that functionality go away.

But that's not the case.

12/20/2007 8:43:28 AM

I think Doug's point is that the world is a changin'. I love right-clicking, but then I remember when it didn't exist.

12/20/2007 12:19:07 PM

I don't think it would be a problem if you had an option to enable/disable. That would actually be kind of nice for everyone. Those who want it, keep it, and those who don't, disable it. But, definitely don't do away with it....pretty please?

12/20/2007 12:59:25 PM

Rick's post caused me to think about WordPerfect and Lotus 123. At one time both leaders in their field.

But they didn't change rapidly enough, and got left in the dust.

12/21/2007 2:59:03 PM

I agree with the above posts that say to keep the right-click functionality. Providing an option to turn it off would be satisfactory, provided you set it to default to right-click ENABLED. This is definately a convenient and quick method to locally perform a function vice tracking all the way up to the tool bar and going through the pull-down menus.
PLEASE keep the right-click functions.

Mike

12/21/2007 8:35:11 PM

When I am doing training on the application I resell, I am amazed at the number of people who don't use right click in the business world and also, when I work with home users, I don't see a lot of right clicking. I really don't think right click is really used that much with non-sophisticated users. I think it more of an issue of keeping the GUI in line with where software is going.

12/23/2007 10:46:51 AM

My vote is for keeping the right click. Please!!!

12/23/2007 12:12:09 PM

I understand Doug's point about using left-click and that's what the new little "properties" button is for. I hope that he will continue the right-click for those of us who are used to it. I have always been a little surprised that nothing happens when one double clicks an item. I find myself double clicking a slide show to bring it up in the editor (builder), only to wait and then remember that nothing will happen!

While on the subject of the drop down item menus, I feel a little reorganization would be helpful -- yes, I know they have been changed recently. I find it inconvenient to have the editing toward the bottom of the menu. I would prefer options of that type to be first, followed by display properties, etc. I suggest for songs that the item "song" be at the top and when opened have edit, copy, print, add to short list, remove, and comments. Similarly, for slide shows, and timers. Oh, yes; what is "add to short list?"

12/23/2007 1:04:50 PM

Short list is a filter on the song database. You can click a little check box in the songs pane and it will only show the short list.

There are some options in the preferences to alter double click configuration, but I haven't played with them.

12/23/2007 3:46:13 PM

Joel, I think that "double-click" option only applies to moving
through the program similar to the +/- keys. What seems natural
to me (but maybe not to others) is to double-click a song or slide-show,
in their respective panels, to bring them up for editing. I keep doing
it out of habit and somehow think that it will magically work!

12/26/2007 5:15:01 PM

To the last line in the BLOG, "The right-click isn't going away in SSP, but you'll find less need of it as the product evolves.", I say thanks. I am an extensive user of the right-click option.

I also agree that to remove any functionallity because an undisciplined person might abuse it is a bad idea. Operators that are not creators or designers should know, and pay, the consequences of changing something without permission.

As a side note... Does anyone know of a MS OS function that acts like a right-click, but is envoked with a left click? I will answer this in few days if no one else knows it. It might also be fun to learn some others that I am not aware or.

12/29/2007 10:06:24 AM

As a new user to SSP, I have made use of the right click, only because I couldn't find what I wanted in the menus. However I do think the current right click menu is too cluttered. I think it needs to be reorganised to be simpler. For example, if you right click on a song the first option should be edit, not the second last hidden under a sub menu. I think a lot of the options in the menu could be rearranged to create a much simpler interface. And with the new properties button, things get even simpler to use.

My two bits,

Simon