I tend to use Gimp with easystroke gestures when drawing. I did a tutorial on it a while back, which can be found here. http://www.gimptalk.com/index.php?/topic/36788-tutorial-using-gimp-with-gestures-look-ma-no-keyboard/ It's a bit out of date, but easystroke still works like a charm. I've switched out xvkbd with CellWriter, which has both hand writing recognition and a virtual keyboard. Gestures are about as fast as keyboard shortcuts, and I find I rarely use more than 10 or so. It's great when working with something like a TabletPC (where the keyboard is folded under the screen) or a CintiQ. Having used Blender a bit, I do see the use of this kind of menu navigation. Often when I'm looking for a tool I have no idea where is, I'll just type part of the name and find it....sometimes even discovering new features in the process. Ragnar p.s. I'm a long time emacs user, that never looks at the keyboard. :) On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Øyvind Kolås <pippin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:23 PM, peter sikking <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> OK, I cannot resist quoting this review: >> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/27/ubuntu_12_04_lts_review/> >> >> it uses GIMP to discuss ubuntu’s HUD. but then: >> >> ‘Of course GIMP is an app that lends itself to the mouse so >> switching to the keyboard to use the HUD isn't always faster.’ >> >> if a software reviewer, with (I postulate) nowhere near the >> speed demands of our core users, can see the flaw, then... >> >> yes, context is everything in interaction design, > > This is not to say that typing will be faster than hunting through the > menus of GIMP to find grid, checkerboard or unsharp mask that are > hidden deep in the menu-hierarchy of GIMP. Such a type-to search based > system could also be made to adapt to the user and by default present > the recently top N used filters/actions without needing to type - kind > of an "invoke recent action" that gives you a list of recently > performed actions and allows you to pick one with the pointing device. > Personally I use <10 GIMP actions frequently, but these probably are > different from the ones other users use, such a frecency filtering > could be one way to give you the best of both worlds - such > adaptations might be easier to make and cater for with app-specific > interfaces rather than a system global one. > > /Ø. > -- > «The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed» > -- William Gibson > http://pippin.gimp.org/ ; http://ffii.org/ > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
