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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Re: Toolkit for Open Look *and* OSF/Motif Look and Feel [why I don't believe]
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.184938.18794@alphalpha.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 18:49:38 GMT
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In article <100920304@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth) writes:
>What occurs to me is that what we really need is to attach the X 
>"focus" to the user focus.  The focus ought to go to where I'm looking.
>The ideal traversal model needs to use some of the same technology that
>the military uses for targeting.
>
>Anybody out there want to build and market such an input device?  I'll
>buy at least one.

They exist.  It's a mouse substitute that straps to your head.
I believe that someone has also made one that sits on the monitor
and tracks your eyes - but that's a lot more expensive (and probably
jitters around too much).
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.