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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: mouse following buttons
From:       Jeff Roush <jeff () mousetool ! com>
Date:       2002-06-01 7:38:37
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Yep, it works great.  I think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread ... 
but I'm biased.  How easy it is to use depends to some extent on your 
coordination; those of us who've spent too much time playing video games 
usually have no trouble picking it up.  It does slow you down a bit, since 
you have to pause the mouse to click, so I might not use it much if I didn't 
have hand pain; but even then it comes in handy if you have a page with lots 
of things to click on.

The KDE version (KMouseTool) doesn't yet handle double-clicks and 
right-clicks.  In the Windows version they are generated by a combination of 
hotkeys and context-awareness, where the program sends different clicks (or 
doesn't click) depending on the window type below the cursor.  

I'd like to add both of those, but I'm still learning my way around KDE 
programming; hotkeys look easy, but I haven't looked into how best to do the 
context awareness.

KMouseTool does let you drag the mouse, though, and that works fine.

I haven't noticed single- and double-click inconsistencies in KDE yet, but one 
of the reasons I like KDE is that it seems very MouseTool-friendly; I can do 
almost anything I want with a combination of left-clicks and left-drags.


Jeff Roush
www.mousetool.com


On Friday 31 May 2002 11:57 pm, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> Hmm, that's really interesting! Does it work fairly well except for jumping
> cursors? I don't have RSI, but I really dislike clicking things when I
> don't have to, so I've thought about trying out gestures, but I'm not sure
> if that's even up to date in KDE.
>
> How do you handle double clicks? (OT, One of these days I need to sit down
> with KDE and see if it's still got inconsistencies between using
> single-clicking in some instances and double- in others, a big pet peeve of
> mine.)

 
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