First impression of Vista

Tim Writer tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Wed Feb 7 00:47:20 UTC 2007


ted leslie <tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 18:09 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:25:30PM -0500, ted leslie wrote:
> > > Yeah i guess honestly this is where i am in a extremely small minority,
> > > I choose to adopt a thumb touchpad keyboard many years ago,
> > > i mean to me, i hate to say it, if you have to move your
> > > hands off the touch typing position and grab a mouse, you immediately
> > > get invalidated as a power user. People some times sit down at my desk
> > > and want to use my computer to show me something and usually state the
> > > same thing, how can you use this!?, in a mere movement of 2 cm's with
> > > the thumb your running from screen edge to screen edge, so for me the
> > > mouse physics and fitt's doesn't apply, as I get where i want to go so
> > > much faster because i am there before most people have gotten half way
> > > to even reaching for the mouse to start the process. I even emailed and
> > > inquired about the head point system where you wear the hat, or stick
> > > little circles on your head and a detector senses your head movement and
> > > moves the mouse cursor, but its not too supported to linux yet, else
> > > probably my thumb pad would be a thing of the past. I even looked at
> > > those binary keyboard balls, ..... don't get me started :) ....
> > > anyways based on my extreme ways what I require is going to be perhaps
> > > in a vast minority. 
> > > The problem with short cut keys is if you use them very rarely ....
> > > use it or lose it.
> > > For me I find the best thing is the Slickedit approach, where you have
> > > mouse/pulldowns, etc but as you want it you can assign everything to
> > > keyboard short cuts, so you can grow at your own pace.
> > 
> > To me, touch pads, pointer sticks, and track balls are all useless.
> > They are less accurate to use (well for fine movement the track ball
> > isn't bad, but for going direct to a certain place on the screen, it
> > sucks).  If you need any pointing device at all, you probably aren't
> > really a power user.  A well setup interface shouldn't have any reason
> > for a pointing device in general.  So a graphical browser might need
> > ine, but in that case I at least want something accurate that will go to
> > whatever part of the screen needed immediately, and you almost never
> > need to move back to the keyboard in that case, since you are mostly
> > just clicking links and scrolling.
> 
> I am there! or i tried to be, some time ago i downloaded a version of
> firefox that had every clickable thing on the web page assigned to a
> keyboard letter/number, no mousing in the web page, take about finding
> heaven. ... but then i go to a flash page, dhtml page, complicated html,
> etc,etc 
> experiment aborted, back to touch pad. That "well setup interface" (for
> a poweruser) if you ever find it, let me know. 

It's called Emacs.

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