On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 13:16 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > So if we can't have multi-touch sensitivity, we need some other source > of input. It could be buttons on the sides (e.g. I could imagine > a phone where you use one hand for the touchscreen while the other hand > holds the phone and can squeeze it to generate a "modifier" kind of > event). For usability, I think it's important that this other source of > input be usable at the same time as the touchscreen is used to move the > cursor (so you can get similar effects as the 2-finger scroll, for > exemples, or the mouse-3 context menus) so it probably would have to be > activated by the other hand.
I agree, a scroll wheel and an extra button on the side of the Freerunner, something like the old Sony Clie PDAs would be great, or maybe a tiny trackball/scrollball like the one on the Apple mouse would be useful. I would love the capacitive multitouch screen but not at the expense of input resolution. Simon _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community