From: Abhey Shah <as234@york.ac.uk>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Samterm up down key patch
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:55:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40efd8873289f964f69fe27d4656f718@york.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061116134647.GA7319@sigint.cs.purdue.edu>
Well nobodies mentioned the fingerworks touchstream yet, but I thought
it was the ideal thing for acme/plan 9 use.
Basically it's two large touchpads that can be used as a keyboard and
mouse combined. You tap with a single finger on "buttons" painted onto
the keyboard, but using 2 fingers turns it into a mouse. Chording can
be programmed in by using 3 fingers.
Unfortunately the two founders are now working for apple and have
stopped making the keyboards (which occasionally crop up on ebay for
1000 pounds+).
On 16 Nov 2006, at 13:46, plan9@sigint.cs.purdue.edu wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:49:56PM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
>> On Wed Nov 15 00:13:41 EST 2006, rsc@swtch.com wrote:
>>> http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR
>>> -39116
>>> Also IBM makes external mouse/keyboards with the
>>> 3-button thinkpad trackpoints on them.
>>
>> it appears that ibm no longer produces these goodies,
>> unfortunately. i would like to try a desktop trackpoint
>> keyboard. especially if it could be used in conjunction
>> with a real mouse.
>
> Maybe they're not as good an idea as they seem. According to Douglas
> and
> Mithal, it's faster to reach for the mouse than to use a TrackPoint.
> Isometric joysticks are too hard to control due to their sensitivity to
> involuntary tremors in the actuating finger, which means you'll spend
> more time trying to put the cursor where you want it that you'll save
> by not reaching your hand to the mouse and back.
>
> Still, it might be nice for gross movements like scrolling or selecting
> a window. Pie menus would be an ideal application.
>
>
> The Effect of Reducing Homing Time on the Speed of a Finger-Controlled
> Isometric Pointing Device [1]
>
> Differences in Movement Microstructure of the Mouse and the
> Finger-Controlled
> Isometric Joystick [2]
>
> [1]
> http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?
> id=191805&type=pdf&coll=&dl=acm&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
> [2] http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=238533&type=pdf
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-16 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-14 1:02 Joey Makar
2006-11-14 10:49 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-11-14 13:04 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-14 13:26 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-11-14 13:38 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-14 18:04 ` David Leimbach
2006-11-14 13:25 ` ron minnich
2006-11-14 13:34 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-14 13:44 ` ron minnich
2006-11-14 14:04 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-14 14:16 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-11-14 14:42 ` maht
2006-11-14 16:48 ` Joel Salomon
2006-11-14 17:03 ` maht
2006-11-14 16:48 ` Joey Makar
2006-11-14 20:03 ` John Floren
2006-11-14 21:57 ` Russ Cox
2006-11-14 22:06 ` David Leimbach
2006-11-15 9:40 ` Matt
2007-01-30 9:55 ` Harri Haataja
2007-01-30 11:34 ` John Stalker
2006-11-14 18:10 ` David Leimbach
2006-11-14 18:21 ` Sape Mullender
2006-11-14 18:35 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-14 18:52 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-11-14 19:14 ` Sape Mullender
2006-11-14 19:18 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-11-14 19:34 ` rog
2006-11-14 19:40 ` csant
2006-11-14 19:52 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-11-14 18:22 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-11-15 4:43 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-11-15 4:57 ` John Floren
2006-11-15 5:13 ` Russ Cox
2006-11-15 5:32 ` John Floren
2006-11-15 9:27 ` Gorka guardiola
2006-11-15 14:09 ` David Arnold
2006-11-16 2:49 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-16 13:46 ` plan9
2006-11-16 13:55 ` Abhey Shah [this message]
2006-11-17 16:44 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-20 5:48 ` Noah Evans
2007-01-30 11:28 ` Harri Haataja
2007-01-30 11:35 ` Russ Cox
2007-01-30 11:45 ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-11-15 5:28 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-11-15 16:26 ` David Leimbach
2006-11-14 14:08 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-11-14 14:20 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-11-14 15:07 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-11-14 18:03 ` David Leimbach
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