Right now I have a touchpad attached to the middle of my Kinesis Contour Classic for stubbourn websites and programs, and a mouse around here somewhere for playing DooM.

However, when I saw this mouse I immediately thought "wow, that'd be really useful for games" then, as I thought more about it, realised it just might be the first mouse that's just as useful as the keyboard for a great number of tasks.

They mention the most obvious of them on their site, CAD, GIMP, though they left out Inkscape, which should be remedied.

But in applications that are already scriptable, this is amazingly powerful.

I use Wanderlust/Emacs as my mail reader, and if I'm in one window copying a segment of text for something, and decide to reply to an email I got earlier and use the keyboard exclusively it goes something like C-x o C-x o C-x o C-p C-p C-p a

But if I assigned a button to click (select the window and set the cursor position) then `a' it's that quick.

Does it take time to reach for the mouse, but a typo and I'm going 'FUCK I _know_ it's read-only' or possibly something even more annoying. Imagine working with proced or dired in that same way. I've found dired pretty annoying in the past, but this might remedy it a bit. Still probably do more in the shell, but yeah.

In Conkeror I could copy an image, DOM node, run a shell command on a url, and it would be simple as two clicks. Hinting is great, and works fine for many sites, but my youtube channel has about 500 DOM nodes, and there are any number of sites that are about 200 links whose text is all 'Download' or 'Read More'.

Audacity, Rosegarden, Ardour, kdenlive… not too much fun to use with just the keyboard, nor just the mouse, and combining them isn't much better(especially since I can't think of a single program that will assume you're using a Kinesis).

The mouse is a bad tool for most jobs I do, even this one, but most mice are bad tools for what I _have_ to use them for right now. This would be a _good_ tool for said tasks.

Remember 18 buttons? I use Emacs. I can remember the keys on the keyboard, and god knows how many combinations thereof. 52 actions is nothing.

63 profiles? Feh, those are automatically loaded when using the application. Emacs modes? No big deal, there.

Joystick will be a better tool for rough scrolling than the stupid wheel.

However, when I saw this mouse I immediately thought “wow, that’d be really useful for games” then, as I thought more about it, realised it just might be the first mouse that’s just as useful as the keyboard for a great number of tasks.
They mention the most obvious of them on their site, CAD, GIMP, though they left out Inkscape, which should be remedied.
But in applications that are already scriptable, this is amazingly powerful.
I use Wanderlust/Emacs as my mail reader, and if I’m in one window copying a segment of text for something, and decide to reply to an email I got earlier and use the keyboard exclusively it goes something like C-x o C-x o C-x o C-p C-p C-p a
But if I assigned a button to click (select the window and set the cursor position) then `a’ it’s that quick.
Does it take time to reach for the mouse, but a typo and I’m going ‘FUCK I _know_ it’s read-only’ or possibly something even more annoying. Imagine working with proced or dired in that same way. I’ve found dired pretty annoying in the past, but this might remedy it a bit. Still probably do more in the shell, but yeah.

In Conkeror I could copy an image, DOM node, run a shell command on a url, and it would be simple as two clicks. Hinting is great, and works fine for many sites, but my youtube channel has about 500 DOM nodes, and there are any number of sites that are about 200 links whose text is all ‘Download’ or ‘Read More’.

Audacity, Rosegarden, Ardour, kdenlive… not too much fun to use with just the keyboard, nor just the mouse, and combining them isn’t much better(especially since I can’t think of a single program that will assume you’re using a Kinesis).

The mouse is a bad tool for most jobs I do, even this one, but most mice are bad tools for what I _have_ to use them for right now. This would be a _good_ tool for said tasks.
Remember 18 buttons? I use Emacs. I can remember the keys on the keyboard, and god knows how many combinations thereof. 52 actions is nothing.
63 profiles? Feh, those are automatically loaded when using the application. Emacs modes? No big deal, there.
Joystick will be a better tool for rough scrolling than the stupid wheel.

You could have each button be a single tool, totally saves time clicking back and forth on the panel thing or using the keyboard for switching.

Apart from that, though? Fuck it.

You could have each button be a single tool, totally saves time clicking back and forth on the panel thing or using the keyboard for switching.

Apart from that, though? Fuck it.