It would appear that on Aug 1, Steve Litt did say: > You, my friend, are a prime candidate for two free software offerings I use > on > a daily, no, a minutely basis: Umenu and VimOutliner. <<Big Snip>> > We keyboard types haven't gotten the respect we deserved ever since Windows > 3.0 raised its ugly head, but these two programs were built from the bottom > up > for touch typists.
Thank you for the info Steve... Though I'm not so sure that I'm quite right for those two applications. I am however glad they are out there. I'm not exactly a professional writer and frankly I wouldn't know what to do with an outliner... As far as menu applications go you make this umenu sound interesting. But I prefer to use the command line, usualy from an xterm For example the most common way that I invoke LyX is via a bash script which amongst other things, opens a half dozen specific .lyx documents. If I want a generic lyx session I'd use <alt>+<F2> lyx<enter> About the only use I have for an application menu is to find the ones I don't use often enough to call up on the command line. And whatever system menu is installed with the linux distro usualy has most of those. Now if this umenu can be configured to totally ignore the current position of the mouse pointer, then I will find it a bit more interesting... (I really dislike it when a menu pattern that began with the keyboard happens to intersect the mouse and further menu control keystrokes no longer have the same results as if the mouse pointer wasn't there...) But by the way. I'm a far cry from a "touch typist" the same problems that make mouse manipulations difficult for me make it down right painful (quickly leading to numbness) to position my hands and stretch my fingers to hit the same key with the same finger all the time. If however I use a slightly more coordinated than a hunt and peck typing system where at any given time I might use any given finger of either hand to hit any given key depending on which finger or hand has had longer to rest... Then I can keypunch for hours and hours before my hands begin to go numb. I dislike mouse methods because I can't keep the dang pointer where I want it, long enough to click on it... And about the only thing that makes my hand go numb faster than the time I tried to learn touch typing is continuous mouse operations. Plus labels mean more to me than icons ever will, and mouse tools seam to love icons... -- | ^^^ ^^^ | <o> <o> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ___ <<jtw...@ttlc.net>> | | <sigh>