Is this a joke?
yes
OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
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Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#22My hands hurt just looking at that damnable thing. I wouldn't be able to use it for more than 10 minutes at a stretch because I'd end up losing all feeling in my right hand.
... if I were a right-hand mouser to begin with, that is, all joking aside.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#23Is this a joke?
If you had to ask, they've probably proven their point that there's something wrong with a lot of Open Source software :)
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#24They've found that almost everyone only uses two of the buttons -- but it's a different two for each person.
So it's a "long tail" mouse.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#25Anyone 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...
Do you mean a digitizer, or a mouse?
The digitizers were impressive, but we later switched to a multibutton mouse for AutoCAD (circa R12 for DOS). I think it had 8 auxiliary buttons in a 4x2 grid, along with the primary left and right button. They were great for AutoCAD, as you could put a different osnap on each aux button, but the company disappeared before writing a windows driver.
I still have one around here, somewhere...
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#26Well, it is probably a joke, but anyone familiar with Engelbart's mother of all demos would certanly see a vague similarity ...
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#27Is this a joke?
If you had to ask, they've probably proven their point that there's something wrong with a lot of Open Source software :)
Oddly enough, I never had any problems with OOo. It just works.
On the other hand, when my office's computers got bumped from MS Office 2003 to 2007, I saw a lot of people bitching about how difficult it was to find stuff and making lots of Ray Charles with moving furniture jokes.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you had to ask, they've probably proven their point that there's something wrong with a lot of Open Source software :)
Oddly enough, I never had any problems with OOo. It just works. On the other hand, when my office's computers got bumped from MS Office 2003 to 2007, I saw a lot of people bitching about how difficult it was to find stuff and making lots of Ray Charles with moving furniture jokes.
I don't really use Office very often, and when I do I find it to be a total rube golberg machine.
I figure that most people are just so used to it that they don't realize it anymore.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#29It's like emacs for office users :)
Only if you're expected to chord three or more buttons on a regular basis.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#30It's obviously unusable for 99% of the world but I could see it being useful in very specific tasks. For example, large amounts of data processing that requires template responses/codes, warehouse processing, maybe point of sale?