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Date: Mon,  4 Jul 2011 15:44:10 -0500
From: EBo <ebo@sandien.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Mousing muscle memory (was: Mousing is faster than
	typing but users do not believe it)
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 On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 18:30:25 +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
>
> I'm quite certain you can develop muscle memory for mouse actions in
> some situations. I'm very interested in determining exactly what
> situations and how to apply it in a more serious context. Chording
> can
> become instinctual if your fingers are up to the task but remembering
> that pie menu from Second Life, I wonder if such a thing would be
> just
> as efficient for text.

 I've made a game out of guessing where predefined web pages pop up in
 my browsers startup and seeing how close to the 'g' on the login button
 I can get before it pops up.  I also prefer to have acceleration set low
 and speed set high, where I can move completely across the screen
 without having to pick my hand up to reach the 4 corners (ie all motion
 in the wrist and fingers)

> I find Rio's menus inefficient as they are, and I'm wondering why.
> One point is that the menus appear with the last chosen item
> selected,
> which means the pointer is not in a consistent position relative to
> the menu when it is opened.

 I find that annoying too.  I also find it a complete show stopper that
 several of the commands are almost opposite of the settings I have been
 using on Linux for the past 15 years, and Solaris, SunOS, AIX, and
 Ultrix before that.  It would be easy to change X's mouse definitions,
 but I'm still asking myself if I *really* want to retrain myself to
 follow Rio et al's conventions.

 Is there some way to configure all these settings?  I have not found
 them yet.

   EBo --