Re: Oberon/Acme/etc. mouse heavy interfaces [Was: Re: Life, universe, and ION3]

Tuomo Valkonen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general
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On 2007-10-13, Roy Lanek <lanek-tnsfOxNVUhtWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> What to say? "Teddy" [Adorno] tells that every and each
> masterpiece is the *mortal* enemy of the other one. 

You mean there are more than one?

> Besides: no one is saying that you couldn't longer type tabs, why
> make it an aut aut?

That's the way it's been in these implementations: you _have_ to use
the rodent and heavily. As such, having a buffer to store commands
(one per line) into doesn't sound that bad, but the actual interface
to use those commands (on the typical computer with controls separate
from display) -- it should be a command query that searches for matching
lines or so. But these people want you to paint the text with the rat,
which is a very cumbersome task.

> Look in a dictionary: agoraphobia. What do you have against
> mice?

What's agoraphobia got to do with mice? 

Computer mice simply are terrible devices not suited at all to
the vast majority of the tasks people want you to use them for.

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Tuomo
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