Even if this turned out to be a real product, they'd probably just claim that it was just a joke now.
OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
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Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#42Earlier 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.
After the initial "people are terrified of change and will resist it" though, the ribbon turned out to be an improvement.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#43They've found that almost everyone only uses two of the buttons -- but it's a different two for each person.
That's why mouse buttons are programmable? I'm not sure if you're joking but that would make 4 buttons (+scroll) optimal no? Or you could have a thumb button as "meta".
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#44lol, why not to release a full-feature QWERTY mouse :D
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#45Thanks, but no thanks. I'm still waiting for the Emacs mouse.
Emacsers don't use the mouse! Unless it has enough keys we can do without a keyboard altogether, that is.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#46I perform music on two Monome 64s and a Trigger Finger. That sums up to 144 buttons, of which 64 are used at all times. But there are only about 8 functional distinctions between those, so 18 mouse buttons is probably an overkill.
However, If this is about the complexity of the Open Office user interface, I don't see this joke contribute in any way, not even by vaguely pointing out the flaws.
The developer mailing list is probably the best place to start a discussion. The same amount of time that went into the OOMouse would have resulted in some fine UI concepts.
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#47Earlier 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.
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Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#48Somewhere now, S. jobs is having thoughts of approaching this mouse and pop out all buttons but one with a keyring :)
Re: OpenOffice launches mouse with 18 buttons, 52 commands
#49This sounds like a very bad Joke: "the OpenOfficeMouse is intended to provide a faster and more efficient user interface" This is really a joke. Nightmare for every user,a scandal for usability experts, if it at least looks good, very ugly thing there for $ 74.99 ? Com'on folk, most of us only have 5 fingers/per hand....18 buttons???. It's a joke!
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"Works like Windows" has been passing for "easy to use" for much too long. My 70-year-old mother migrated from MacOS 9 and Office 98 straight to Gnome without much complain and without any problem.
So where does Windows come in this picture? You have her going from Mac to Linux...