On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:24:49PM -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > I wouldn't mind so much except that for a long time now I can keyboard > for hours with the only problem being a case of saddle sores from my > chair... ;-7 But if I wrestle with a mouse pointer for as little as > 5 minutes, my hand starts going numb... (similar problem if I try to > do much writing by hand, and good gosh lord help me if I need to sew > a ripped out pair of pants... > > Anyway anytime I HAVE to put down the keyboard in favor of intensive > mouse work, I'm unhappy.
I know this is somewhat off-prompt, but there is another solution. Trackpoint keyboards are the greatest input device ever conceived. I don't suffer from any pain from using a mouse, I just prefer not to most of the time. I once used a laptop that had an integrated trackpoint and I'm hooked. It took some practice to get really comfortable with the mouse pointer being controlled by my finger on the keyboard, but I'll never go back. IBM and Unicomp both make a number of desktop trackpoint keyboards. I am a Model M lover, so I use the M13: clicky with a trackpoint. But there's also newer IBM keyboards that are non-mechanical. Only downside is that they are somewhat hard to find and more expensive that the usual keyboards. Ross -- Ross Vandegrift [email protected] "If the fight gets hot, the songs get hotter. If the going gets tough, the songs get tougher." --Woody Guthrie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
