> For not-so-precise work you can use one of your thumbs without > moving your hands out of the keyboard and for the rest you have > control at the tip of your finger without the use of a heavy > mouse.
Why does the weight of a mouse make you anxious? I use a decent mouse pad: nylon-tissue over caoutchouc/neoprene; it doesn't slide below, while on the top, the mouse glides like an ice hockey *puck* [disk] over ice. (And dirt doesn't get attached under the mouse.) The mouse pad is generously sized, maybe 30 x 35 cm, and is 5-7 mm thick--which arranges me very well: I am using a Thermaltake fan-less notebook cooler pad, thick approximately the same. With the mouse pad adjacent to the Thermaltake cooler pad, I happily can open the DVD driver again without the need to push something below the tray [for offsetting the + 5-7 mm of the notebook cooler pad] when inserting or removing a disk [for not letting the tray bend]. I have *normal* sized hands, or, if not, then even slightly tinier hands than average. And don't like small/lightweight mice [which I have tried already and know]. Well, I guess that it's problematic at the least to *ergonomically* design minuscule mice ... how much *playroom* for ergonomic shaping does it remain with mini-mice? I like to rest with the palm of the hand over the mouse--try that with mini-mice--even if it's only for a couple of seconds; I don't look at the mouse when I size and use it, hence feel comfortable with /benefit from the slightly increased inertia. /Roy -- SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS jadilah kumbang, hidup sekali di taman bunga, SSSSS . s l a c k w a r e SSSSSS jangan jadi lalat, hidup sekali di bukit sampah SSSSS +------------ linux SSSSSS be a bee, lived once in a flowery garden, SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS not a fly, lived once in heaps of garbage
