2009/11/8 Jonathon Fernyhough <j.fernyho...@gmail.com>: > 2009/11/8 mac <ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk>: >> Will this be supported in Lynx? >> >> http://openofficemouse.com/pr110609.html >> >> I do hope so, as I'm hoping to get one for each hand to double the >> functionality. >> >> mac >> > > Don't show this thing to Steve Jobs. It may well finish him off. > > Seriously, though, I thought this was what keyboard shortcuts were > for? Surely if I'm typing I don't want to move my hand to the mouse to > press a button just to make some text bold? > > Though having said that I love the idea of a built-in joystick. > Scrolling, for example, would be much easier with that, whether in a > document, webpage or in an RTS.
IBM used to make a mouse with a joystick instead of a scroll-wheel. Based on the same technology as their track-points pointers on thinkpads it sounded like a great idea... however I have used them and prefer a scroll wheel... Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.gpg) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965 A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
