OOmouse wrote:
I am the designer of the OpenOfficeMouse and a long-time user of
OpenOffice.org, particularly Writer and Impress. It is my belief that
application interface efficiency can be pursued in other ways than new
variations on hotkeys, pull-down menus, and icon toolbars. We are
planning to release the source code for the mouse software we have
written and would like to do so as an OpenOffice.org project rather than
as an independent OSS project as a means of contributing to the
community. This is a request for review of the proposal to establish
the setup and customization software for the OpenOfficeMouse as an
OpenOffice.org open source development project.
The OpenOfficeMouse mouse is designed specifically for use with
OpenOffice and incorporates OOo 3.1 usage data for its default button
assignments. The software presently allows complete customization of
the mouse's 18 buttons, scroll wheel, and analog joystick. Additional
functionality includes double-click assignments for all 18 buttons as
well as the ability to use the joystick as a keyboard with 4, 8, or 16
assignable key commands. Version 1.0 of the software is already
functional for Windows operating systems and the code will be released
under the Gnu Lesser General Public License (LGPLv3). The mouse
possesses 512k flash memory, supports 64 on-mouse application profiles,
and 1024-character macros. The software is written in C++ using Qt
library and uses .svg format for all graphics. The most pressing need
is for a library for sending and receiving commands according to the HID
standard in order to provide full Linux and OS/X support.
More information about the OpenOfficeMouse can be found at
www.openofficemouse.com. The OpenOfficeMouse will be publicly
introduced at OOoCon next month.
Thank you,
Theo
Many moons ago (1980's) there was a thing called a Microwriter (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter for example) that was a
"chording" keyboard. It allowed one to type text one handed by assigning
a different combination of its 6 keys ("chord", like on a piano) to each
character. Many people claimed to be able to type text faster using one
of these than using a conventional keyboard.
Does the OpenOfficeMouse support this idea? Should it? Why not?
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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