Allegedly, on or about 19 August 2013, g sent: > you all need to do what i did years ago. > > i bought a thumb type logitech trackman marble and i have enjoy the > critter and cursoring ever sense then. > > beauty of it is it sits where i put it, and i do not have to keep a > place cleared to move it around in. I have tried them in the past, and they did seem like a good idea. However, I never managed any comfortable ways to: Select several objects. With a mouse, you'd click and drag a box around. You do that using finger button pressing and wrist movement to define the box. With a trackball, you have to do a contortionist dance with all your fingers. Likewise with dragging something (e.g. move an file from one place to another, reposition an object within a page, etc.). Drawing is a damn near impossibility, such as trying to draw a basic thing in GIMP, or fiddle with a pre-existing image. Trackpads are even worse. Evil things, they are. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
