OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
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OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
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Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#2"The Mouse team have worked closely with experts from the OpenOffice.org User Experience project."
Ah. Well that explains it.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#3Is this some kind of PR stunt or a real product? This sentence from the press release smells of PR: "The OpenOfficeMouse includes default profiles for the five core OpenOffice.org applications based on 662 million datapoints compiled by the usage tracking facility incorporated into OpenOffice.org 3.1."
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#4They've found that almost everyone only uses two of the buttons -- but it's a different two for each person.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#5Is this some kind of PR stunt or a real product? This sentence from the press release smells of PR: "The OpenOfficeMouse includes default profiles for the five core OpenOffice.org applications based on 662 million datapoints compiled by the usage tracking facility incorporated into OpenOffice.org 3.1."
It's a joke? -_-'
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#6I used to have a mouse that had some fancy buttons on it. I only attached two crucial commands to the mouse: One button was a double click, one button was a hide/unhide desktop. I couldn't figure out what to do with the other ones.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#7They've found that almost everyone only uses two of the buttons -- but it's a different two for each person.
I guess that also means that almost everyone thinks sixteen of the buttons are just in the way.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#8I used to have a mouse that had some fancy buttons on it. I only attached two crucial commands to the mouse: One button was a double click, one button was a hide/unhide desktop. I couldn't figure out what to do with the other ones.
I have a MX Revolution and here's how I bind my buttons:
Left Click Right Click Middle Click (Open tab in new window) Double Click Copy Paste Next Tab Previous Tab Close Next App Previous App
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#9It's like emacs for office users :)
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#10With good software, this could be an interesting gaming mouse. Can't really picture using it for office work though.