From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20080524161806.B1B3B1E8C56@holo.morphisms.net> <5339c545ab101671638d533f0ddc5998@smgl.fr.eu.org> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 21:03:46 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] evoluent mouse review From: Russ Cox To: Mathieu Lonjaret Cc: 9fans@9fans.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Topicbox-Message-UUID: b7edec80-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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. 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. Russ