On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 18:24:10 +0000 (UTC), Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > > > > Thanks for telling me how amazingly simple and easy it is to navigate > > Arachne in mouseless mode. > > > I just tried it out in off-line mode. The Arachne graphics interface > > is really very easy to use without a mouse. I had previously > > supposed that it would be very complicated and difficult, somewhat like > > trying to go mouseless on another well known, but here unpopular, GUI > > known as Window$. Why didn't they design the Window$ GUI to work as > > easily as the Arachne interface without a mouse? > > Actually Windows itself has keyboard equivalents for many functions > but most people aren't aware of them. I don't know about the Windows > browsers because I don't use them. And I don't know about more > recent Windows versions, but I do know that prior to 95 Windows itself > had keyboard equivalents and mouseless navigation. > I sometimes need to use a Window$ browser to do web sites that are infested with JavaScript. Now that my built-in pointing device on my laptop no longer works, I am going to have one heck of a time at trying to install a standard serial mouse for working under Window$ because Window$ wants you to use the point-and-click GUI to remove old hardware and to find new hardware and to install new hardware. I can't point-and-click if my mouse is running wild and out of control. There is probably a much easier way of doing these things simply by editing some Window$ start-up files while under DOS, and before going into Window$. I don't know which files to edit and I don't know just how they should be edited. I would appreciate any help that someone might be able to offer on how to solve this problem. For working only under DOS, it is so easy to uninstall a defective built-in mouse and to install instead an alternative and functional standard serial mouse. Window$ likes to make the simplest things soooo terribly complicated.
Sam Heywood -- Message sent by Unix Pine, Version 4.44
