more than 5 mouse buttons

[Hendrik Tews]

Sid Wallace writes:
   Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:00:32 -0500
   Subject: RE: more than 5 mouse buttons
   
   Try using a 3 button mouse and your keyboard.  :-)
   
   12 mouse buttons are overkill!
   
No no no no no !

The scroll wheel is absolutely essential so a mouse with less
than 5 buttons is like a keyboard with less than 26 keys.

Tilting the wheel for going forward and backward in the
webbrowser is very handy. For gimp one needs to control at least
three dimensions: scrolling horizontally/vertically and zooming.
That makes 9 buttons the absolute minimum...

Of course all these functions should be available from the
keyboard as well. 

Bye,

Hendrik