On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Egbert van der Wal wrote: >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.
Those are kindof rare cases IMHO, but they do sound like they would be useful to some people nonetheless. Since posting, a number of other people have written me privately either in email or in IRC with other interesting examples of where multiple mice pointers would be useful. I still believe it would be of limited value to the general population, but that it would indeed be useful for various niche users and power users, so might be worth having some kind of support for it. Seems scary though.. and would make it interesting to work out exactly how/what the swcursor/hwcursor options end up doing... ;o) -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
