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
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