On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 08:46:31AM -0700, david mattatall wrote:
>On Thursday 09 October 2003 08:03, Kieran O'Sullivan wrote:
>> Why would you want more than one pointer? and more importantly how would
>> it be used?
>
>1. It's quite conciveable that two cursors could be used to perform two
>acti
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Egbert van der Wal wrote:
>One very simple use of two mice and two cursors would be the use of the same
>computer by two people.
>
>I often find myself working at something together with someone else when we
>keep passing the mouse over to eachother when it would be a whole
One very simple use of two mice and two cursors would be the use of the same
computer by two people.
I often find myself working at something together with someone else when we
keep passing the mouse over to eachother when it would be a whole lot simpler
and more effective if we both had a mous
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, david mattatall wrote:
>> Why would you want more than one pointer? and more importantly how would
>> it be used?
>
>1. It's quite conciveable that two cursors could be used to perform two
>actions at the same time, I mean most of us use multitasking OS'es so the
>cursors s
On Thursday 09 October 2003 08:03, Kieran O'Sullivan wrote:
> Why would you want more than one pointer? and more importantly how would
> it be used?
1. It's quite conciveable that two cursors could be used to perform two
actions at the same time, I mean most of us use multitasking OS'es so the
--- Kieran O'Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Why would you want more than one pointer? and more
> importantly how would
> it be used? I wonder if you are not making life
> more difficult than it
> needs to be. Actually the more I think about the
> more I really want to
> know the answer to
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Grant Wallace wrote:
> I earlier had a question regarding how to support
> multiple pointers. One reply to that was to write a
> Window Manager to handle this. I can see how the
> window manager can handle moving windows
> simultaneously and redirecting input to windows
> simul
Why would you want more than one pointer? and more importantly how would
it be used? I wonder if you are not making life more difficult than it
needs to be. Actually the more I think about the more I really want to
know the answer to thoes two questions.
__
the problem is X is fundamentally based on the concept of a single
cursor. Most if not all GUIs are.
Alex
--- Grant Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I earlier had a question regarding how to support
> multiple pointers. One reply to that was to write a
> Window Manager to handle this. I can s
I earlier had a question regarding how to support
multiple pointers. One reply to that was to write a
Window Manager to handle this. I can see how the
window manager can handle moving windows
simultaneously and redirecting input to windows
simultaneously. But I'm wondering how would one render
mult
10 matches
Mail list logo