On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:29, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:50, Steve Holdoway wrote: > >>(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. > > Not quite with you there... is the rsi keyboard or mouse generated? In my case I got a nasty dose of mouse shoulder after a solid fortnight of mousing to make a picture show look really good on the screen, It took weeks on anti-inflamitories before my shoulder came right. I have met and heard of others - mainly my sister-in-law - who got horrible Carpel Tunnel Syndrome from the keyboard.
Anybody used the Ratpoison window manager? > 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. Agreed, for most people, point and click is far easier to learn, but imho it's NOT quicker to use. > >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 (: > >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. That's an idea! -- C. S.
