Allegedly, on or about 30 October 2015, Doug sent: > Have you considered a trackball? There are some with scroll > capability, but I just have a ball and two buttons--Kensington > optical trackball. The low end ones that I use are around $25, > sometimes a bit less. Since the appliance doesn't move, the > cord doesn't get tangled up. Also, you don't need to have room > to move a mouse. Yes, but I find them very awkward to use. Perhaps a huge handball that you can palm (like the old missile command arcade game) would get around the main awkwardness. But the main thing is that I find multiple selection of items with anything other than a mouse very difficult. e.g. Hold down shift and click on the first and last things you want to select, or hold down control and select any random things you want to. It's an awful of of spider-like finger twiddling to do such things, or accurate and rapid darting about the screen, with a trackball. The mouse is just acceptable for a bit of on-screen painting, such as polishing up some photos, the trackball is awful. For any large amount of on-screen drawing, I have a humungous Wacom drawing table (tablet is an understatement), the drawing area is bigger than A3. As un-ergonomic as it is, the mouse is the least worst general purpose pointing device. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ 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. Linux servers are always being dæmonised... -- 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
