Fab4Linux

[Nathan England]

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I'd be interested in more info. Or atleast demo it. Sounds very interesting.
Wish I could have seen it.

nathan

Am Donnerstag 30 Januar 2003 07:43 vormittags schrieb Vaughn Treude:
> Nathan,
> You're right, we don't have the website up yet.  Since you asked . . .
> <marketing pitch follows>
> Fab4Linux is (we believe) a new step in the evolution of the graphic user
> interface.  It's a program that will allow you to perform many of the
> operations that required use of the mouse with the keyboard, which is far
> more efficient.  (Not that the mouse isn't good for graphics-related and
> infrequently-performed tasks, it is.)  Unlike the command line interface,
> you won't have to memorize a lot of commands and options.  Fab4Linux
> assigns commonly-performed tasks (program launches, text insertion, window
> navigation) to the three main rows of the keyboard, and creates a graphic
> map on the desktop that lets you see assign captions and icons to the key=
s.
> Unlike traditional macro programs, you don't have to remember what the key
> sequences are, and, because there's a visual map of the keys, you can have
> multiple menus for multiple purposes.  It's designed to get out of your w=
ay
> (so you can type normally) with a single key press, and be re-activated
> with one control+key press.  It's still in the beta stage right now, and I
> demoed that beta for the east and west side meetings.   It's not
> open-source, but we're giving away the betas and we're planning to sell t=
he
> final product pretty cheap, probably $30 or less.
> <end pitch>
> If you're interested, I can send you more info.
>
> Vaughn Treude
> Nakota Software, Inc.
> in association with Fabuluss Software (Fab4Linux)
>
> On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:53, you wrote:
> > What is Fab4Linux ?
> >
> > Google returns a couple links to the as yet web site...
> > Being in Payson, I don't make the meetings!
> >
> > nathan
> >
> > On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:06 pm, Alan Dayley wrote:
> > > So, post a review, those of you trying it out.  Do you like it?  Does
> > > it work?  Are you using it on GNOME or KDE or both?  Where/when can
> > > others get it?
> > >
> > > When they presented on the east side, they were not ready to provide =
it
> > > to us.
> > >
> > > Someone write up a summary of the meeting and submit it as a news item
> > > on the web site.  Then, someone write up a review for the Review
> > > section of the web site.
> > >
> > > Alan
> > >
> > > -------Original Message-------
> > > From: BoBB <snoogans@qwest.net>
> > > Sent: 01/29/03 11:42 AM
> > > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > > Subject: Fab4Linux
> > >
> > > > There was talk at the meeting of how to  try out the software witho=
ut
> > >
> > > possibly fubaring your system(Michelle was the unlucky first one) and=
 i
> > > found that if you just open up /etc/ld.so.conf and at the bottom add
> > >
> > > /where/you/untar'd/it/Fab1-02/lib
> > >
> > > save it and run ldconfig. Then you can run Fab4Linux from the Fab1-02
> > > directory. It runs great except at 1600x1200 it takes up alot of room
> > > heh. probably 1/3rd of the screen, haven't found a way to make it
> > > smaller yet aside from shrinking the window size but the keys dont
> > > scale down =3D/
> >
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