[OT] Buttonless mice [was: Re: [plug] Good GUI Interface Design]

[James Devenish]

In message <20031220084135.GI1152 at erdos.home>
on Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:41:35PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> So[,] are you saying you prefer all-keyboard[] copy/paste to X-style, or
> that you prefer to use mixed mouse/Ctrl-C/mouse/CtrlV-style copy and
> paste?  (And don't answer "yes".  I know you would given the chance.)

In message <20031220091538.GK1152 at erdos.home>
on Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 05:15:38PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:50:07PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> | > (And don't answer "yes".  I know you would given the chance.)
> | 
> | Yes and yes, dagnabit.
> 
> Yuck.  You can add this to your list of reasons why I'm for "The Other
> Side" then :-P

With regards to all-keyboard copy and paste, I prefer at times because
it takes just as long to reach over the the mouse, position the cursor,
click, hold, drag, get the multiple lines selected properly, release,
move the mouse and click to paste as it does to navigate with the
keyboard and do the copy/paste (in screen, say). Two different ways of
doing the same thing. But this isn't really what our original
disagreement was about. The difference was that my experience is that
it's more trouble than its worth, whereas yours is it's more of a
convenience than a problem. With regards to mixed mouse/keyboard, I
don't mind that at all because my experience is that I rarely get to use
the mouse-only method in a keyboard-free context. So, since I'm near the
keyboard, I can use the keyboard to avoid the problems caused by the
mouse-only method.

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I might have forgotten to add these:
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