From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 05:59:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e61001060559y6a118e5qeac89b7e4437990b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd6fe68a1001052103s3ca9af65u2590269358784a02@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > I am planning to play with an Apple Magic Mouse
> > using Paul Lalonde's patch (soon to be in p9p).
>
> Paul's code is now in p9p. Because the code can read
> where your finger is on the mouse when you click, it can
> pretend there are three different buttons when in fact
> there's just one. Chording works too, and it's all very natural.
> It's quite elegant actually. Kudos to Paul. I hope that the
> code will let one use the new clickable laptop trackpads as
> 3-button mice too, but I haven't tried that.
>
In fact it has made the trackpad unusable for me as I can't highlight
anything with a click of any kind at this point. Now if you have a mac
multi-touch laptop, you're going to have get an external mouse.
>
> However, if you have any tendency toward repetitive strain injuries,
> you might want to avoid the Magic Mouse: not being able to touch
> the mouse with the non-clicking fingers means a less relaxing grip,
> especially when pretending its tiny surface has three buttons.
> After maybe four hours of use, my wrist had started to hurt.
>
> (I had a bad desk twelve years ago that hurt my wrists, and
> now they're sensitive to this kind of thing. But I'm not the only
> one - http://boingboing.net/2009/12/03/magic-mouse.html - and
> presumably that guy wasn't using 3 buttons or chording.)
>
> Back to the Evoluents for me.
>
I'm back to using trackballs :-) . And I guess I either have to fix this
problem with the trackpad myself or wait for a fix or use an external
pointing device.
Dave
>
> Russ
>
>
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-24 16:13 Russ Cox
2008-06-24 20:32 ` Dave Eckhardt
2008-06-24 20:46 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-06-26 7:45 ` Nick LaForge
2008-06-26 17:22 ` Dave Eckhardt
2008-06-26 17:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-01-03 21:52 ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2010-01-04 4:41 ` Russ Cox
2010-01-04 16:12 ` David Leimbach
2010-01-04 17:14 ` Benjamin Huntsman
2010-01-04 18:14 ` Anthony Sorace
2010-01-04 18:26 ` David Leimbach
2010-01-06 5:03 ` Russ Cox
2010-01-06 5:20 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-01-06 5:52 ` Jack Johnson
2010-01-06 7:05 ` andrey mirtchovski
2010-01-06 13:59 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2010-01-06 14:58 ` hiro
2010-01-07 0:44 ` blstuart
2012-02-21 15:03 ` Quico Moya
2012-02-21 15:28 ` Jeff Sickel
2012-02-21 15:52 ` Russ Cox
2012-02-22 17:19 ` Quico Moya
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