Operationally, one does not program for “left” or “right” buttons, because left-handed users are encouraged to set a switch that logically turns the mouse around, with “Button 1” being the button worked by the index finger, no matter what side of the mouse it’s on.
-- John W. Kennedy "Compact is becoming contract, Man only earns and pays." -- Charles Williams. "Bors to Elayne: On the King's Coins" > On Dec 31, 2019, at 10:52 AM, Philippe Verdy via Unicode > <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > > I say "emoji" because they would belong to the subsets of emojis, within > characters, and existing mouse characters (but not button-specific) are > already encoded as emojis (i.e. two styles: basic glyphs or color icons). > > What is important is less the mouse than the identification of the button > (left/center/right) for documenting keymaps in UI (the documentation usually > indicate the default right-hand assignment, a user may still configure the > mouse driver to swap the left/right buttons). > > For now the alternative is to compose a localisable string like "L" or "R" or > "C", followed by the generic mouse (when documenting keymaps, the surrounding > square and shading may be done outside using styling, we just need the unique > symbol in a more immediately readable way than just "click". > > A generic clic (1st button) is sometimes represented as an arrow cursor or > hand with a pointing finger, and some radial strokes near the tip of the > arrow, but it is not very distinctive when we need to explicitly disinguish > the buttons, so I suggest a basic empty shape (rounded rectangle or ovoid > like a narrow theta "Θ"), with the top part split in three cells by > horizontal and vertical strokes, and one of the three cells filled > (representing the wire or the wireless waves is not necessary). > > > Le mar. 31 déc. 2019 à 14:57, Shriramana Sharma <samj...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> Why are these called "emojis" for mouse buttons rather than just >> "characters" for them? >> >> On Tue, 31 Dec, 2019, 18:45 Philippe Verdy via Unicode, >> <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: >>> A lot of application need to document their keymap and want to display keys. >>> >>> For now there are emojis for mouses (several variants: 1, 2 or 3 buttons), >>> independently of the button actually pressed. >>> >>> However there's no simple emoji to represent the very common mouse click >>> buttons used in lot of UI. >>> >>> But it would be good to have emojis for the left, center, and right click >>> (showing a mouse with the correct button filled in black), instead of >>> writing "left click" in plain text. >>> >>> Has it been proposed ? >>> >>> See for example https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ID/Shortcuts >>>
