Anyone remember those old CAD mice from the 80s? With the custom mousing surface, region-sensitive reticle, and 12+ buttons on the mouse? Those things were so cool...
OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
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Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#12A little late or early for April Fool's? O_o.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#13I 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
I bind mine to modifier keys, like Alt, and Super. Then I can chord-resize windows and chord-drag them from the middle of the window without doing the one-hand-keyboard-one-hand-mouse move.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#14I 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 wouldn't know what to do with the OOMouse's extra buttons, either. 18 buttons is more than I could remember, much less reliably click.
For a few years I've been using mice with "only" 2 extra buttons, mapped to CTRL and ALT. Because they are close together on the thumb side, it's easy to click either one or both together. This is especially nice for gaming, allowing access to the C-, M- or C-M- equivalents of a key without moving the keyboard hand. This matches office application use cases such as selecting text and operating on it, whether both hands can act in parallel.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#15If this thing is for real, I'm going to buy one. I can see using it as a chording keyboard (or at least trying to ;-}).
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#16The site seems to be slashdotted, here's a better link: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/openofficemouse-isnt-free...
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#17i could see this being good for gaming, but if you're enough of a power office user to remember these buttons, won't you just be using the keyboard shortcuts anyway, thus never needing the mouse?
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#18The fact that people in this discussion aren't sure if it's a joke tells you something about the OpenOffice experience.
Now all we need is some brash young designer to skin the default screen for each program, tell OO to fire its whole experience staff because they obviously can't tell their heads from their tails, and write a blog about it.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#19Oddly the site doesn't seem to mention if the mouse is compatible with Solaris or OpenSolaris.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#20Is this a joke?