Magic Mouse!! I Like It!

UPDATED:  Yhea, after a few hours of using the RIGHT-CLICK on the mouse for spaces it really is a hinderance.  The need for the RIGHT-CLICK to be the secondary menu is unnatural.  I miss the trackball and have not found a substitute to activate spaces properly. Think someone maybe getting a Magic-Mouse Christmas, still hoping of a Mouse Driver Update!   

 

Ok, so I bought a Magic Mouse.  I like it!  The issues I site here, mind you, can be resolved in software.  This is not a slam but a thought of ergonomics of the MAGIC-MOUSE and how it maybe improved with a little thought! 

My first issue is the fact I lost the mini-Mighty Mouse trackball.  That works much better so it seems than the sliding effect.  This maybe just getting familiar with the device and the multi-touch technology! Further getting the right sensitivity adjustment for  scrolling granularity in System preferences maybe the answer.  I am not too torn up about this but it does seem to be my first issue.  Give me a week or two and I'm sure  I will have found the right settings. The features lost that I call issue to are the loss of the "Mighty Mouse" trackball and side buttons.  I don't care that they are gone I just need a replacement for the functionality.

The side buttons and trackball can be  replaced by the a 1 and 2  finger click.  I use spaces and click the Mighty Mouse Trackball to activate spaces and I use the secondary side buttons for a display of all applications.  This allows lightening fast navigation for me when working the 12 desktops I use in spaces.

As it stands now I lost a little speed and gained a keystroke+mouse combination.  The right mouse button click can activate spaces.  No problem here, but when that feature is set in spaces the right mouse button can not activate an application's secondary menu.  One or the other,  must use the right-button click, makes sense, we lost the track ball that separates the two actions.

OS X does compensate for the loss of the right-mouse button click for the secondary menus  when  the user selects the right mouse button for "Spaces-Activation".   The compensation is simply the key-press on the CONTROL key and clicking the Right Mouse button (CTL-Right [side] Mouse Button) and the secondary applications menu is activated.  It may seem as a minimal change but it is touching two devices instead of controlling through one.

So, my work-flow changes a little bit. I know this is just a matter of getting use to the key+mouse combination.  However, with the MAGIC-MOUSE's grid sensitivity (Multi-touch surface), the interface and capability should be able to decipher betwixt a 1 finger or 2 finger click on the RIGHT side of the mouse.   It can tell a two finger swipe?  Why not a two finger press plus the grid position? Hence, 1 finger click  begets application secondary menus whilst a 2 finger click activates Spaces.  Wala, it can be done! 

Now the side buttons, I'm not 100% sure how to implement this same functionality.  However, if the Magic Mouse  again has a graph of sensitivity (Multi-touch Surface) over the top of the mouse's surface it seems like the software could sense a single point.  Now with 1 or 2 fingers clicking on that surface (setup by the user)  one could select a mid point or side points and with that add a second, third or fourth button to click. 

Maybe this is in the works, but would like to see an attempts at this implementation in the future.

After all its suppose to be a Magic Mouse!

Apple,  Does this make sense?

Cheers, 

SOS Out... ... ... 

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