On Sunday 09 July 2006 08:10, david burzota wrote:
Another alternative would be to signal the start and end of the draw
operation with a key on
the keyboard.
It would require 2 hands, but at least relieve the need to constantly be
pressing
with a finger on the mouse.
David
From: Roel
Hi,
Thanks for all the comments and suggestions. My message about De
Quervains disease-GIMP
connection was not meant to be a complaint about the GIMP or any other
software. I just
wanted to point out two things: 1) that we can definitely end up with
painful, inflamed
The conclusion : Beware of irresponsible use of the mouse. De
Quervain’s disease is definitely
deceptive and resembles a broken bone: it takes weeks/months to
heal.
H. Noriega
And it takes 5min break per hour to avoid it.
___
Gimp-user
VytautasP wrote:
H. Noriega wrote:
The conclusion : Beware of irresponsible use of the mouse. De
Quervain’s disease is definitely deceptive and resembles a
broken bone: it takes weeks/months to heal.
And it takes 5min break per hour to avoid it.
There are even tools to remind you of
Gilles Maltais wrote:
A good solution would be to use a pen tablet. I have a big Wacom
12-inch which is good for graphics but for general pointing use, a
small one would be infinitely better than a mouse for EVERYBODY.
BTW, are there lefthanders on the list ? I would like to know how
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
A good solution would be to use a pen tablet. I have a big Wacom
12-inch which is good for graphics but for general pointing use, a
small one would be infinitely better than a mouse for EVERYBODY.
BTW, are there lefthanders on the list ? I would like to know how they
handle their mouse.
Jeffrey Brent McBeth writes:
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.
When I saw the original request I was thinking of suggesting a
sticky mouse option, equivalent to the sticky
