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New Buttonless Touchpads = Pain
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Heh oh dear this may be a bad place to write this but I absolutely hate the glass trackpads.
Adding too many functions to something I don't really use all that much and removing half the visible hardware (the click button) and then making the whole thing feel slightly like a polished marble surface just ruined the Apple trackpad for me.
I've always been more of a person to use keyboard shortcuts (and I miss the days you could dismiss dialogue boxes by pressing y for yes, n for no and so on) and leave the mouse be, but I have slowly moved on to using my mouse more and I love my BlackBook trackpad because it is simple. It moves the cursor, and I can click, even right click with two fingers, and that is all I need.
All this forward/back app switching tomfoolery is best suited to the command key, the tab key and the nav keys.
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I can't believe I used the word tomfoolery. I'm 19 not 69
Adding too many functions to something I don't really use all that much and removing half the visible hardware (the click button) and then making the whole thing feel slightly like a polished marble surface just ruined the Apple trackpad for me.
I've always been more of a person to use keyboard shortcuts (and I miss the days you could dismiss dialogue boxes by pressing y for yes, n for no and so on) and leave the mouse be, but I have slowly moved on to using my mouse more and I love my BlackBook trackpad because it is simple. It moves the cursor, and I can click, even right click with two fingers, and that is all I need.
All this forward/back app switching tomfoolery is best suited to the command key, the tab key and the nav keys.
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I can't believe I used the word tomfoolery. I'm 19 not 69
I can't believe I used the word tomfoolery. I'm 19 not 69
But do you wear a flat cap?
Tap to click is garbage. It's for people who have patience and nothing to work on. Don't click with your fingertips, people, if it bugs you. Press down with the side of the pad of your thumb. Jeez. (Use the muscles that rotate your forearm toward you. They're stronger and will press the button faster due to faster rotation.)
ought to just do what command-tab and shift-command-tab do. Replicating the action for both left and right gestures is a misguided waste.
Hit control-F7. Then you can use the tab key and the space bar. The Return key functions as "Y", the space bar as "N", and you can get to the other with tab, or shift-tab.
I'm a keyboard shortcut freak, but sorry, gestures are much faster. You just need to use Multiclutch to assign gestures to the shortcuts you define.
I'm with you, here. Apple did a bad job with four-finger horizontal swipe. It
ought to just do what command-tab and shift-command-tab do. Replicating the action for both left and right gestures is a misguided waste.
the new trackpads are a great feature... Apple keeps making them better & better than the prior trackpad!
Makes you never want to go back to a laptop without it
Makes you never want to go back to a laptop without it
i, too, love the trackpad. three finger gestures makes surfing the internet so much easier. the pad is stiff if set up without tap to click, but turning tap to click on saves your finger.
Ah no, I'm a county too far north to be seen wearing a flat cap. Black wooly beanie hat all the way. The more obscure the band name scrawled across the top the better!
Thanks Banbeerd for the control-F7 thing, I never knew this setting existed! It's gonna save me a bag of time in the field.
Anyway I'm command-tabbing my way towards iTunes for a chill spell; Wolf says peace out dudes ∑:p
No problem. There are a few other things you might find useful, listed under the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences pane. I couldn't deal without this. Really fast menu navigation.
same here lol.. thats a genius thing, i have always been a shortcut guy, and using the trackpad is a bit of a pain sometimes when my fingers aren't in the wrong place!! :s
PTP
Personally, I can't stand tap-to-click; I always tap (and therefore click) by accident all the time as I'm using the trackpad, thus leading to unhappiness.
But to the original poster, I find that if I click at the bottom of the trackpad--just I would if there were an actual button--then it is quite easy. You can click almost anywhere (except, perhaps, the very top) in the trackpad, including the middle where you would normally move your fingers about to move the pointer. But since the hinge is at the top of the trackpad, it's easier to click the farther down you are on the "uni-button". Using my thumb also helps--it's a bit stronger, and then I barely even have to move my tracking fingers.
But to the original poster, I find that if I click at the bottom of the trackpad--just I would if there were an actual button--then it is quite easy. You can click almost anywhere (except, perhaps, the very top) in the trackpad, including the middle where you would normally move your fingers about to move the pointer. But since the hinge is at the top of the trackpad, it's easier to click the farther down you are on the "uni-button". Using my thumb also helps--it's a bit stronger, and then I barely even have to move my tracking fingers.
x2, I try to tap as much as possible.
Come to think of it - doesn't the new glass trackpads remind you of a Blackberry Storm?!?!?
After getting my MB CE, I can no longer use a PC trackpad for more than a couple minutes without getting irritated.
If PC manufacturers spent any time at all on choosing the right devices to put into their products, they wouldn't be losing marketshare as quickly.
