On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 05:34:11PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: > > There's one relatively simple change I can think of, that could reduce > problems as the one experienced by Hector: instead of requiring the user > to hold the mouse button pushed down during a drawing operation, it's > possible to signal the start and the end of a drawing operation with > separate mouse clicks. I.e. instead of "mouse down -> paint operation -> > mouse up" you could do "mouse click -> paint operation -> mouse click".
Personally, I switched to a trackball and picked up contact juggling to exercise the wrists. Fundamentally, a mouse is the wrong tool with which to paint, and by and large a disasterous tool for computer health. Generally, the advice to take breaks is a good one. Specifically re the above quoted, I would consider mouse toggling to be an accessibility issue best dealt with at a desktop level (GTK/Gnome/Whatever) rather than application specific hacks. Jeff -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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