6 degrees aren't enough, even 9 degrees wouldn't be enough, we need a truly hypercubic input device IMHO. so far, mice aren't it.
On 2/18/22, adventures...@gmail.com <adventures...@gmail.com> wrote: > An idea that would fall under rio and interfaces; > > Replace mouse with movement. Have the usual X and Y, but also add a Z, > which would be equivalent to something like pinch-zoom on a phone. And also > have rotation around an axis, so that a mouse wheel would be interpreted as > rotating around the X axis. Have movement accept absolute and relative > inputs, so it works with touch screen and wacom tablets, or mice and > joysticks. Multiple device inputs can go in, and the interface would read > out 6 degrees of movement. > > Than have all buttons come from a single button server. That way you can > map the extra buttons on modern mice, or take input from an on-screen > keyboard to be read of key presses by another process. > > And have both movement and buttons listed in /srv, and let other devices > import them. So you can have a tablet's touchscreen used as a pointing > device at a desktop. > > And with that, work could then be done on alternative graphical interfaces > without being tied to the traditional keyboard and 3 button mouse. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Td4449edc4863e16e-Mb57394aa18df4a08e0a03b62 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
