One very simple use of two mice and two cursors would be the use of the same computer by two people.
I often find myself working at something together with someone else when we keep passing the mouse over to eachother when it would be a whole lot simpler and more effective if we both had a mouse and a pointer so we could point things out to eachother and work simultanously. It would be even more useful with a multiple monitor setup with a mouse and keyboard for each monitor, so you can work on different things at the same time while having the possibility of easily exchange tasks/applications by simple dragging the window to one of the other screens. I can think of loads of uses for multiple mices/pointers. On Wednesday 15 October 2003 18:07, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, david mattatall wrote: > >> Why would you want more than one pointer? and more importantly how would > >> it be used? > > > >1. It's quite conciveable that two cursors could be used to perform two > >actions at the same time, I mean most of us use multitasking OS'es so the > >cursors should reflect that. > > > >2. USE YOUR IMAGINATION! Two usb mice, one in your left hand, one in your > >right. You use one to click and drag a window out of the way and you use > > the other to choose your favorite song on XMMS. The uses of the > > technology will expand to fit the technology, that's what OpenSource > > development is all about. (actually what first is needed is someone with > > ambition AND coding skills. Like many others, I only have the latter.) > > I find it rather unlikely that someone would use a mouse in each > hand for any real world non-hypothetical "because I can" sense. > Come up with an actual *tangible* reason, and then it's something > to discuss IMHO. > > Open source development isn't "all about devising and > implementing useless features nobody will use for any useful > purpose". > > >> I wonder if you are not making life more difficult than it > >> needs to be. > > > >How? By proposing an Idea? > > I see no demand for your idea out there. > > >> Actually the more I think about the more I really want to > >> know the answer to thoes two questions. > > > >See above :) > > Feel free to implement it, and then fix all window managers and > other affected applications out there, then propose it as an > enhancement if you like. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
