OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands

Post by chadaustin » Sat, Nov 07, 2009, 4:10 AM UTC

joe_bleau wrote: post #25

chadaustin wrote: post #11

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...

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, so…

Post by Concours » Sat, Nov 07, 2009, 5:55 AM UTC

Post by Xixi » Sat, Nov 07, 2009, 7:31 AM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #27

MikeCapone wrote: post #23

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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.

Post by johnbender » Sat, Nov 07, 2009, 8:00 AM UTC

bdr wrote: post #4

They've found that almost everyone only uses two of the buttons -- but it's a different two for each person.

Post by rbanffy » Sat, Nov 07, 2009, 9:28 AM UTC

MikeCapone wrote: post #28

rbanffy wrote: post #27

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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.