Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aipna!rjc From: rjc@uk.ac.ed.cstr (Richard Caley) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Seven-fingered hands (was Re: Not impressed with MacX) Message-ID: Date: 14 Dec 90 22:57:33 GMT References: <9011290206.AA00343@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> <1990Nov29.110947@springer.Apple.COM> <1990Dec3.093045@Unify.com> <2536@trlluna.trl.oz> Sender: news@aipna.ed.ac.uk Organization: Center for Speech Technology Research Lines: 19 In-reply-to: soh@shiva.trl.oz's message of 11 Dec 90 21:43:53 GMT In article <2536@trlluna.trl.oz> soh@shiva.trl.oz (kam hung soh) writes: raveling@Unify.com (Paul Raveling) writes: > In fact, sometimes I even wish for a 5-button mouse -- > and X is ready for it, even if "normal" clients aren't. Can't wait to grow those two extra fingers to hold the mouse itself! I don't know about 5, but a shift key on the side to work as Meta would be nice. Actually I wouldn't mind my keyboard on a ball, so that I can move around without taking my hands off the keyboard. -- rjc@uk.ac.ed.cstr If Apple did the user interface to a cooker it would have only one knob, but it would control different burners depending on how fast you turned it.