Steve Holdoway wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:50, Steve Holdoway wrote:Not quite with you there... is the rsi keyboard or mouse generated? The original reason for a mouse was to get the macho latinos to use computers, as typing was beneath them. However, it took off as most people saw it as a real good time saving idea.
(This is a really bad example, as we're going to have to write really small to get /etc on a floppy (: ).
Thank you for pointing out that vital point.
I've spent most of my life behind 80x24 character monitors, where the
command line is your favourite deity ( and, to be honest, I do prefer
it ), but if it were that good, then why invent a mouse?
So we can pay the medics to fix the resultant RSI / OOS problems.
It all depends if you find burrowing through 'dozens' of cascaded menus in the WM in order to find that one command that you could type in just a few characters to be more to your taste or not. It isn't to mine I just cannot remember all the slots.At some point we dinosaurs are going to have to recognise that if linux is going to become popular, then it's got to appeal to the point and click generation. And, yes, I do have a vested interest in it getting popular (:
Hey, I am 16, have spent most of my time behind a 1280x1024 LCD and I prefer the command line and emacs whenever possible. Ok, I am not the best example for my generation (in many ways) but please, no prejudices against young people. ;)
I think the KDE idea of the F2 activated single line cli to be just wonderful. Good to see the Gnome folks have taken it up too.
You always could map your own function keys in X.
-- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell.
Cheers,
Steve
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