soh@shiva.trl.oz (kam hung soh) (12/12/90)
raveling@Unify.com (Paul Raveling) writes: > In fact, sometimes I even wish for a 5-button mouse -- > and X is ready for it, even if "normal" clients aren't. Can't wait to grow those two extra fingers to hold the mouse itself! ;-> ;-> ;-> But seriously folks, is there actually a five-button mouse on sale or being developed? I supposed I could strap the mouse on my palm, but it'll be impossible to touch type. Frivolously yours, --------- Soh, Kam Hung email: h.soh@trl.oz.au tel: +61 03 541 6403 Telecom Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 249, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
cameron@usage.csd.oz (Cameron Simpson) (12/14/90)
From article <2536@trlluna.trl.oz>, by soh@shiva.trl.oz (kam hung soh): | raveling@Unify.com (Paul Raveling) writes: |> In fact, sometimes I even wish for a 5-button mouse -- |> and X is ready for it, even if "normal" clients aren't. | | Can't wait to grow those two extra fingers to hold the mouse itself! | | ;-> ;-> ;-> | | But seriously folks, is there actually a five-button mouse on sale or | being developed? I supposed I could strap the mouse on my palm, but | it'll be impossible to touch type. One of the daftest things I ever saw was an add in Byte for an, um, `mouse' with something like 42 buttons on in, called Power Mouse or something. Truly frightening. I wonder if they sold any? - Cameron Simpson cameron@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au
rjc@uk.ac.ed.cstr (Richard Caley) (12/15/90)
In article <2536@trlluna.trl.oz> soh@shiva.trl.oz (kam hung soh) writes: raveling@Unify.com (Paul Raveling) writes: > In fact, sometimes I even wish for a 5-button mouse -- > and X is ready for it, even if "normal" clients aren't. Can't wait to grow those two extra fingers to hold the mouse itself! I don't know about 5, but a shift key on the side to work as Meta would be nice. Actually I wouldn't mind my keyboard on a ball, so that I can move around without taking my hands off the keyboard. -- rjc@uk.ac.ed.cstr If Apple did the user interface to a cooker it would have only one knob, but it would control different burners depending on how fast you turned it.
matthieu@laas.fr (Matthieu Herrb) (12/16/90)
In article <996@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au> cameron@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Cameron Simpson) writes: > >One of the daftest things I ever saw was an add in Byte for an, um, `mouse' >with something like 42 buttons on in, called Power Mouse or something. Just put a ball or an optical device under your keyboard, and move the keyboard to move the pointer !!! -- \ / | Matthieu Herrb CNRS - LAAS |\/|--| matthieu@laas.fr 7, avenue du Colonel Roche | | | 31077 Toulouse Cedex - France "If You're not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem..."
mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (12/19/90)
>> In fact, sometimes I even wish for a 5-button mouse > Can't wait to grow those two extra fingers to hold the mouse itself! Goodness, you don't need that. I can use a three-button mouse quite effectively with only two fingers used for pressing buttons. Even just one finger if I have to (if the other two "obvious" fingers have pizza on them, for example :-). > But seriously folks, is there actually a five-button mouse on sale or > being developed? I supposed I could strap the mouse on my palm, but > it'll be impossible to touch type. :-) Take a current mouse - the three-button Sun mouse on my desk as I type this, for example. Now shrink the buttons until the spaces between them are as wide as the buttons are (this doesn't need much shrinking for the mouse on my desk). Now put buttons in those spaces. To put it another way, you don't need 26 fingers to type the whole alphabet on a normal letter keyboard :-) I'd buy one, given assurance that the software I have can deal with it (either directly or with simple patches). der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (12/20/90)
I have long yearned for a set of foot pedals, probably purloined from a Dictograph. One each for Control, Meta, and Shift. With heel-toe braking techniques, two feet could probably manage several more than just three modifier bits. And with one of those forehead-mounted pointer controls, my hands would really never need to leave home row. Hmm, I wonder if the rheostat in a a sewing machine speed control pedal could serve as a dial input?
bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (12/21/90)
From article <BOB.90Dec20090300@volitans.MorningStar.Com>, by bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield): > I have long yearned for a set of foot pedals, probably purloined from > a Dictograph. One each for Control, Meta, and Shift. Why stop there? How about the foot keyboard from an organ? :-) -- Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu
young@ssiwest.UUCP (indi) (01/03/91)
>Why stop there? How about the foot keyboard from an organ? :-)
...or how about a dish-shaped keyboard for one-handed use,
leaving the other hand free for the three-key mouse? Control,
shift, and meta would be key combos on the mouse...
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