Don't forget there are heaps of BBSes still running these days on the Internet. They are still a lot of people's main portal to idle, chat, news... and they're still cool!
I'd say it could be better if mouse gestures input is handled by X or the window manager, like wayV. I suppose you can match mouse gestures to keystrokes and therefore theoretically you could use gestures for any application under X.
The downside will be you might need to alter the default keystrokes in different applications so that you can have a single mouse gestures generating a single keystroke to do different functions in different windows.
I'd say this problem can also be solved by a much more sophisticated window manager, which is able to generate different keystorkes on the same mouse gestures, based on the current focus of windows.
Anyway, I don't think mouse gestures will help myself much. Personally I have RSI for the mouse wheel already .
On the other hand, what will be interesting to see is if we can define some even more special move for the mouse to do different things, as if you're playing those action fighting games.
Hold down middle button -> move your mouse Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right -> Release middle button will send a SIGKILL to all applications?:)
I'll say it really depends on what you want to do with the device. A PDA is a PDA, and it acts as a PDA pretty well I can imagine.
I have an iPAQ running Linux and the point is a I want some kind of mobile device that run Linux and technically I can run anything on it and that means I can run anything anywhere.
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Mozilla is way too large both in footprint and running memory still. It's slow too.
Nanozilla on nanoX might be a lot better but that's a different story.
Cool... you've read my mind :)
I used to hang around Taiwan unis' BBS, but the problem is they are all too slow to connect from overseas.
While talking about chinese base BBSes, they are maybe two or three popular ones in Hong Kong, and some in Australia too I guess.
Don't forget there are heaps of BBSes still running these days on the Internet. They are still a lot of people's main portal to idle, chat, news... and they're still cool!
I'd say it could be better if mouse gestures input is handled by X or the window manager, like wayV. I suppose you can match mouse gestures to keystrokes and therefore theoretically you could use gestures for any application under X.
:)
The downside will be you might need to alter the default keystrokes in different applications so that you can have a single mouse gestures generating a single keystroke to do different functions in different windows.
I'd say this problem can also be solved by a much more sophisticated window manager, which is able to generate different keystorkes on the same mouse gestures, based on the current focus of windows.
Anyway, I don't think mouse gestures will help myself much. Personally I have RSI for the mouse wheel already .
On the other hand, what will be interesting to see is if we can define some even more special move for the mouse to do different things, as if you're playing those action fighting games.
Hold down middle button -> move your mouse Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right -> Release middle button will send a SIGKILL to all applications?
I'll say it really depends on what you want to do with the device. A PDA is a PDA, and it acts as a PDA pretty well I can imagine.
I have an iPAQ running Linux and the point is a I want some kind of mobile device that run Linux and technically I can run anything on it and that means I can run anything anywhere.