And to top it all off it features a real-time display of the fingers touching the surface of the mouse that you can enable to test and monitor the way the mouse sees your input.Tracking Speed adds the ability to increase the maximum available speed by an extra 25%.Tap Sensitivity implements an advanced algorithm that impacts a number of factors used to determine taps, all controllable by a single slider.It features the MagicMenu, the ability to bind a variable number of finger clicks and taps to functions like Middle Click, Hold Down Both Mouse Buttons, Spaces, Expose, Dashboard, MagicMenu, etc. MagicPrefs is a toolbar application for OS X which aims to improve the functionality and configuration options of the Apple Magic Mouse. MagicPrefs is no longer maintained, the functionality it provided was made possible by Api's that are now deprecated and reverse engineered private Apple frameworks
In the early days, many users found it incredibly frustrating.Note: MagicPrefs is no longer under development. Photoshop's bad UI has become a "good" UI only because it became popular. (But not in Photoshop and consequently not in graphics programs that try to compete with Photoshop.
option-drag creates a copy in Finder, in MacPaint, when you drag and drop text anywhere on the Mac (just tested it now while writing this). If you want to allow users to customize things, that's well and good, but the default behavior should be the expected behavior. He wants the user to have control (easy to quit, undo, etc.) but if these aren't consistent, how is the user empowered?īut to show I didn't just make this rule up, here's evidence I made it up several years ago:
One of the things that made the Mac so usable from day one is that you didn't need to learn how to do the same thing in different ways - know how to copy and paste in MacWrite? You know how to copy and paste. Jakob Neilsen (whom I don't much respect) puts it at number 4: And, if you think about it, the three items he lists before "consistency" would be pretty worthless if they weren't implemented consistently.
The first rule of usability is consistency, the fact that it's treated as a "convention" on the PC and by developers of 3D software is why both are not known for their usability. It seems like Martin could just allow option– or command– clicking to orbit, or make it a preference setting. option drag should create new copies (or instances). This works as expected in the Object Browser in C3D too.Ĭ3D handles basic mouse operations in a somewhat unorthodox manner, and personally I'd like fixes across the board, but it would probably flummox a lot of existing users. you can - correctly - use it in photoshop to add to or cut out of a selection similarly, in some programs such as Finder you can do things like make discontinuous selections). This is a bit weird because command-click is also mapped by HIG to "toggle selection" (e.g. in a browser middle- or command-clicking a link will open it in a new tab) while C3D uses option-click for orbiting while (apparently) explicitly supporting a middle mouse button rather than simply implementing command-click and not explicitly supporting the middle mouse button. It looks like the basic problem is that middle-mouse is treated by Apple as command-click (e.g.