From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <06ce521c00ab2af9ced54e4c986f4f8e@terzarima.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] searching in rio terminal windows From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: <20040421031525.GC11456@goose.eng.sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 10:37:21 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 65fcee4c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >> you clearly need one of them keys-on-wheels devices. Seriously, though, >> has someone *productively* used "mouses" with more than 3 buttons ? probably: but i'd suppose that as the number of buttons increases, it's even more important to have the actions be consistent across the whole interface, so you have no need to think about it. as another aside, buxton et al had one scheme that used two devices, one in each hand, the non-dominant hand positioning a partly-transparent control, and the dominant hand operating on the things beneath the control.