[Dain42]

> want to eject a disk? drag it to the trash can...?

That was just something that was there forever, basically since 1984. It was part of the Macintosh vernacular. You could also right-click to eject.

[rtpg]

That's kind of my point. It's all learned vernacular, so having inately understandable behaviour isn't as important as being consistent.

Though someone's saying that dragging the ion turns it into the eject symbol, which I hadn't noticed until now but is more reasonable.

[wvenable]

Right-click? On a mouse with one button?

[Animats]

"The Macintosh has a multi-button mouse, but the buttons are on the keyboard".

[kagamine]

You had t press a modifier key to right click, but 2 button mouses have been sold with macs since 10.2 at least, and 10.2 was available in 2001/2.

[masklinn]

> You had t press a modifier key to right click

Control, which still works incidentally.

[rangibaby]

You still need to enable right click from a menu for Apple-brand mice and trackpads. Otherwise ctrl+click is still the only way

[masklinn]

IIRC for trackpads at least it's been enabled by default for some time (though I believe the default gesture is a double-tap rather than a tap in the bottom-right corner).

[Bartweiss]

But it's been considered a terrible design choice since 1984. It's not one of those things that we decided against long after it was put in place, Unix philosophy types were complaining about the inconsistency of that choice the day it came out.

[niccaluim]

Contextual menus weren't added until Mac OS 8 or thereabouts. In all prior versions you either dragged to the Trash or used an item in the menubar.

[ISL]

if there was a two-button mouse....