From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] p9 mice From: Dave Lukes To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <59cc861c309ae76693745694d3c59ead@proxima.alt.za> References: <59cc861c309ae76693745694d3c59ead@proxima.alt.za> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1082025393.26171.99.camel@zevon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:36:33 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c544cfa-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 08:10, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: > Yes and no. Positioning isn't necessarily easier. It _must_ be, once you're used to it: less muscles and inertia involved. Plus, when you get CTS, using a mouse becomes a _lot_ harder! > I prefer using my left hand, sadly. :-(. I've been looking for left handed or neutral pointing interfaces, and they are few and far between. > > It has 4 buttons, scroll-lock button, a wheel and scrolling buttons, > > JIC you're short of things for your fingers to do. > > > You mention that three buttons are under the right-hand thumb. I > agree with others that chording is practically impossible in such > case. I lied: see later mail: there's actually 8(eight) buttons in total: 3 under the thumb, one under your pinkie/annular/whatever finger and a scroll wheel with 2 scroll buttons either end plus a scroll lock button (no, I'm not making this up!!!). So you can get a reasonable combo of (thumb, index, annular) for the 3 buttons. Interestingly XF86 gives you 2 middle buttons (the scroll wheel and one of the other thumb buttons), and I'm starting to use them interchangeably?!? (If you wanted to, you could, no doubt, remap some of the other 5 buttons to create a greatly enriched user chording experience). > Why didn't Logitech just stick a third button on their perfectly > adequate product of a few years ago, I wonder? Lack of marketing-compatibility:-). > Its only other flaw > seems to have been a propensity to catch smoke particles which lead to > an extremely ugly, grimy interior. Nobody smokes in my office, so the > problem would be much smaller. Well, that's generally less of a problem with optical stuff anyway: I pop the ball out of mine about once a month and blow/wipe the dust off and that's it. Dave.