The mouse that wanted to be a keyboard
— November 8 2009
I really hope this project is a joke. It reminds me of that saying, “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. And so they added more and more to the mouse, forgetting that some inches away you have, well… a keyboard.
Quoting the OpenOffice Mouse site: “You can do far more with this mouse than most people are likely to realize at first [...] You can launch applications from the desktop, and in your browser you can fire up a specific Internet site with one button, then close it with a double-click on the same button.”
But why use the mouse for that? You need macros? Well, that’s why you have a keyboard! Shortcuts! Hotkeys! Bundles! Launch keys! And guess what -if you are using open-office, your hands are probably already on your keyboard.