From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How useful is a scroll wheel?
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 15:12:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFgOgC9VK7oXpdhGp2HG6Mk_Nytj5Zv1oP=powHijtmnFMaY3g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130708141956.GB44745@intma.in>
2013/7/8 Kurt H Maier <khm-9@intma.in>:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 06:09:14AM -0400, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
>> Although I spend a large part of my time on a Mac laptop, I'm a little
>> puzzled at how or why one would use two hands with the trackpad
>> doohickey. I just have the trackpad built-in -- I don't have the
>> wireless trackpad -- but I'm curious as to how / why you use this, and
>> how two hands make it more interesting than what one might do with
>> multitouch.
>
> They're discussing using it in addition to a fully-functional mouse,
> rather than instead of a fully-functional mouse.
I also have a fully functional mouse, so I fail to see how this is
answering anything about my question, which is what Rob is doing with
it. Because it sounds interesting and I'm apparently not smart enough
to infer.
> khm
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-08 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-02 23:36 Caleb Malchik
2013-07-03 0:58 ` Terry Wendt
2013-07-03 2:18 ` Rob Pike
2013-07-03 3:18 ` Anthony Sorace
2013-07-03 5:35 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-07-08 10:09 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2013-07-08 10:15 ` Nemo
2013-07-08 14:19 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-07-08 14:33 ` Matthew Veety
2013-07-08 19:12 ` Devon H. O'Dell [this message]
2013-07-08 20:36 ` fgergo
2013-07-08 20:51 ` Rob Pike
2013-07-08 9:08 ` Steve McCoy
2013-07-03 4:51 ` Joseph Xu
2013-07-03 5:37 ` Steven Stallion
2013-07-08 9:57 ` Peter A. Cejchan
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